Home Health & Hospice Week
Industry Note:
CMS Quality Conference Is Next Month
Published on Fri Jan 24, 2020
If you’d like to join in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ quality improvement effort, you can join 3,000 like-minded leaders at the 2020 CMS Quality Conference. The conference, held in Baltimore Feb. 25-27, will explore numerous ideas including quality measures for Medicaid home and community-based services and reducing adverse drug events in the home. More information is at www.cmsqualityconference.com.
Other Articles in this issue of
Home Health & Hospice Week
- Review Choice Demonstration:
Overwhelming Majority Of Texas HHAs Are Opting For RCD Pre-Claim Review
More than a third of Texas agencies have entered their RCD choice so far. Pre-Claim [...] - Medical Review:
Know Your Affirmation From Your Approval Rate
Approval rates are tougher. Under the Review Choice Demonstration, choosing the Pre-Claim Review option is [...] - Demonstration Projects:
New Year Has Brought New RCD Developments
Here’s how results calculation works. Some Illinois agencies were placed in the wrong review choice [...] - Reimbursement:
iQIES Problems Persist
Keep a record of your failed OASIS submission attempts, NAHC advises. While it’s still too [...] - OASIS:
Change How You Answer M2420 Effective Immediately
Response 2 now applies only to Medicare home health skilled services. Add another OASIS change [...] - Industry Note:
OIG To Eye IRF Discharges To Home Health
Will examination lead to drop in IRF referrals? Another home health-related topic has landed on [...] - Industry Note:
MedPAC Wants Cuts
As expected, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission has finalized its recommendations to Congress to cut [...] - Industry Note:
Beware This Hospice Billing Trap
Do you know how to bill for a day when a patient changes hospice care [...] - Industry Note:
CMS Quality Conference Is Next Month
If you’d like to join in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ quality improvement [...] - Industry Note:
CMS Bungles Some MBIs
Medicare’s conversion to using MBIs rather than HICNs has been pretty smooth, but hasn’t gone [...] - Industry Note:
MAC To Docs: Get Your HH Coding Together
Do you need help getting your referring physicians to provide the documentation necessary for PDGM [...] - Industry Note:
Include IDG Support
Don’t leave out Interdisciplinary Group documentation when you respond to a hospice medical review request. [...] - Industry Note:
Hospice Notifies Families About HIPAA Breach
Instead of electronic files, it’s hard copy paper files that have led Hospice of Anchorage [...] - Industry Note:
Hospice Adds To Name
Another hospice is tweaking its name to indicate its wide array of services. Last fall, [...] - Industry Note:
Hospice Builds Facility
Nonprofit hospice provider Pathways plans to build a 12-patient inpatient hospice facility on its Ft. [...] - Industry Note:
Supervisor Pleads Guilty
A home health supervisor has pleaded guilty to Medicaid fraud in the ongoing Moriarty Consultants [...] - Industry Note:
NPR Criticizes Hospice
Mainstream media is taking another swipe at hospice. “Patients Want To Die At Home, But [...]
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