Home Health & Hospice Week
Heed HIPAA Rules For CAHPS Surveys
If you haven't done so yet, expect to have a conversation with your CAHPS vendor about HIPAA risks. "To display an agency's name and/or logo on a mailing envelope, vendors must obtain the HHA's permission to display the name and/or logo and assurances that the agency does not consider displaying the name and/or logo to be a HIPAA risk," says a recent post on the Home Health CAHPS website. "It is up to each vendor to determine what kind of documentation or assurances it needs from its HHA clients for its own internal recordkeeping to feel comfortable submitting the Exceptions Request Form (ERF)." The post instructs vendors to include in the ERF "a statement that the vendor has discussed or will discuss the potential for HIPAA risks with its current and future client(s) and has or will obtain approval from the client(s) to display the agency name and/or logo on the envelope or through the envelope window." Tip: No need to rile the paper tiger. "Vendors can submit one ERF to cover all their current and future clients; CCNs do not need to be listed," says the post at https://homehealthcahps.org.
Home Health & Hospice Week
- Documentation:
Cert, F2F Documentation Troubles Plague HHAs
Recent documentation change in budget law amounts to no change, experts say. With Targeted Probe [...] - Legislation:
Go To The Source For Documentation Language
Key point: 'May' versus 'shall.' Here's the Bipartisan Budget Act language specifying the home health [...] - Regulations:
Prepare To Bombard CMS With Comments About Documentation Change
There's still a chance to persuade CMS to make change mandatory. Home health agencies would [...] - Certification:
Target These Mistakes Your Referring Physicians Make
Diagnosis alone doesn't cut it. The Medicare requirement basing home health agency payment on your [...] - Compliance:
Are Your Docs Hitting These 5 Cert Points?
Forget the ides of March: Beware missing encounter date. According to Medicare regs, a physician [...] - Industry Note:
Keep Eye Out For Aseracare Verdict
Forthcoming decision could determine fate of many whistleblower cases. A U.S. Appeals Court ruling expected [...] - Industry Note:
Get Quick Notification of Targeted Probe & Educate Developments Online
Home health agencies served by HHH Medicare Administrative Contractor CGS have good news about how [...] - Industry Note:
CMS Launches MyHealthEData
Get ready for potential new patient datarelated responsibilities under a recently unveiled Trump administration initiative. [...] - Industry Note:
Heed HIPAA Rules For CAHPS Surveys
If you haven't done so yet, expect to have a conversation with your CAHPS vendor [...] - Industry Note:
Therapy Caps Depart, But KX Modifier Remains
Don't think Medicare therapy cap amounts for Part B therapy services are going away entirely, [...] - Industry Note:
State Needs Surety Bonds For Home Care, Auditor Urges
Home health agencies may not be subject to surety bonds under Medicare - much to [...] - Industry Note:
VA To Piggyback On Medicare Fraud-Fighting
Expect even more enforcement activity under a new relationship between the Department of Veterans Affairs [...] - Industry Note:
Private Duty Chain Makes NM Buy, Including Hospice
Addus HomeCare Corp. has agreed to purchase Ambercare Corporation Inc., a provider of personal care, [...] - Industry Note:
Canadian Firm Buys In NE
Nova Leap Health Corp., based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, has acquired private duty company Family [...] - Industry Note:
SNF HHAs Change Hands
Nursing home chain HCR ManorCare is filing Chapter 11 bankruptcy and handing over ownership and [...] - Industry Note:
Hospitals Close HHAs
More hospitals are closing their home care units. In Nebraska: Methodist Hospital in Omaha is [...]
