Home Health & Hospice Week
Industry Note:
Doc, Owners, RN Indicted In Detroit Fraud Scheme
Published on Thu Sep 20, 2012
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Home Health & Hospice Week
- Therapy:
'Close To' Elimination Will Wreak Havoc On Home Health Therapy
Drop the proposal for specific visit ranges, commenters urge CMS.Scheduling for therapy reassessments in multi-discipline [...] - Regulations:
Therapy Visit Coverage At Stake In Final Rule
What happens if therapists miss a reassessment time point? Home health agencies may not gain [...] - Hospice:
Sidestep Hospice Cert Pitfalls With These 4 Tips
Pointer: Use your own docs to persuade colleagues to improve documentation.So often for hospice patients, [...] - Medical Review:
Step Up Your Hospice Cert Education Efforts
Tip: Your physicians are a critical tool.Certification errors are topping the list for hospices' claims [...] - Industry Note:
Revisit Your Record Retention Policy Or Risk Yanked Billing Privileges
Medicare ups the retention period to 7 years.The feds may have given you a motivating [...] - Industry Note:
Medicare Issues Therapy Cap Letters To Home Health Patients
If you furnish therapy only under home health, you probably thought the Part B therapy [...] - Industry Note:
Sequestration Pay Cut Looms
As the Jan. 1 deadline for sequestration cuts approaches, the health care industry's heavy hitters [...] - Industry Note:
Discipline Matching Not Necessary For F2F
Obtaining face-to-face documentation from referring physicians is hard enough -- don't send the F2F documentation back [...] - Industry Note:
Claims System Fix Solves Remittance Advice Problem
A Sept. 4 fix to the Medicare claims system has cleared up one problem encountered [...] - Industry Note:
Use Hospital Pay Change As Relationship-Builder
Now's the time to strengthen your relationships with hospitals, thanks to the payment change taking [...] - Industry Note:
Wait For Licenses Stretches In Commonwealth
Virginia may have ended its moratorium on new HHA licenses, but that doesn't mean new [...] - Industry Note:
Beware Employees With Sticky Fingers
Reimbursement and compliance problems aren't the only threats to your cash. Keep a close eye [...] - Industry Note:
Doc, Owners, RN Indicted In Detroit Fraud Scheme
Home care-related indictments continue to come down in the Detroit area. This time, the feds [...] - Reader Question:
Make Sure An MSW Is Supervising Social Work Assistants
Tip: Consult your state regs for exact documentation requirements.Question: "I thought only a LMSW could [...]
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