Home Health & Hospice Week
Heed 2 LSC Survey Memos
Hospices with inpatient facilities can’t afford to overlook two new Survey & Certification memos about the Life Safety Code. “CMS began surveying facilities for compliance with the 2012 edition of the LSC and HCFC on November 1, 2016,” the agency reminds state surveyors in S&C memo 17-15-LSC.
Memo 17-15-LSC directs surveyors to use the 2013 edition of the NFPA 101A, Guide on Alternative Approaches to Life Safety, known as the FSES. “The 2013 FSES will be used in place of the 2001 FSES which was previously approved for use … with the 2000 LSC,” CMS notes.
S&C-17-14-LSC addresses sprinklers. See the memos at www.cms.gov/Medicare/Provider-Enrollment-and-Certification/SurveyCertificationGenInfo/Downloads/Survey-and-Cert-Letter-17-15.pdf and www.cms.gov/Medicare/Provider-Enrollment-and-Certification/SurveyCertificationGenInfo/Downloads/Survey-and-Cert-Letter-17-14.pdf.
Home Health & Hospice Week
- Conditions of Participation:
Make Sure Your Governing Body Is Up To Tasks Required By CoPs
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Follow 4 Pointers For Governing Body QAPI Compliance
Get started on education efforts right away. The July 13 deadline for the new Conditions [...] - Conditions of Participation:
Examine Your Governing Body's New Responsibilities
The new CoPs will add a lot more to the plate. New governing body duties [...] - Compliance:
Governing Body's New Duties Go Beyond QAPI
Board must approve Administrator backups, new CoPs say. Under the incoming Conditions of Participation, you [...] - Hospice:
Past Years' Hospice Cap Overpayments A Moving Target
Beware reopenings — and repayments — long after the fact. If you have a number [...] - Reimbursement:
Use These 5 Steps To Cope With Cap-Based Reopenings
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MAC Denies 1 Out Of 10 CH** Claims In Probe
You’d better make sure your documentation for patients with the highest clinical and functional domain [...] - Industry Note:
Stay On Top Of Hospice Cap Reporting Changes
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Beware HIC Glitch
If you’re trying to look up beneficiary information in the Common Working File and run [...] - Industry Note:
Medicare To Consolidate DME Bidding Rounds
Medicare’s competitive bidding process for DME may get a bit easier to track soon. The [...] - Industry Note:
Home-Based Primary Care Saves Money, Project Shows
The second performance year of the Independence at Home Demonstration, which provides chronically ill patients [...] - Industry Note:
Heed 2 LSC Survey Memos
Hospices with inpatient facilities can’t afford to overlook two new Survey & Certification memos about [...] - Industry Note:
Tenet To Shed Home Care
Dallas-based health system Tenet Healthcare Corp. plans to sell its home care and hospice business, [...]
