Home Health & Hospice Week
Heed These ADR Tips
One HHH MAC wants to make the Additional Development Request (ADR) response process simpler for everyone. "If you send a CD or DVD for medical record or appeal documentation, please send these to us in a TIFF format," says Palmetto GBA. But, "Please don't TIFF each page. One TIFF file per record is acceptable." You don't have to require a password for your medical record file, Palmetto says. "However, if you do use a password, please ensure that we are able to link the CD with the password," the MAC says on its website. Another tip: If you send your ADR re-sponse on paper, don't staple it, Palmetto instructs. "The staples impede the scanning process. We will not change the order of your submitted documents."
Home Health & Hospice Week
- Regulations:
Ready, Set, Check! CMS Approves Checkboxes For F2F Documentation
Beware the fine print, however.Medicare has finally loosened up on some unnecessarily strict documentation requirements [...] - Hospice:
MAC Cracks Down On Claims For Long-Stay Hospice Patients
One edit of long-stay patients sees 97% denials.Medicare is clamping down on payments for long-stay [...] - Certification:
How Much Help Can You Give Docs On F2F?
CMS weighs in on handing out sample documentation.Medicare officials insist that physicians' documentation of the [...] - Medical Review:
Cover These Documentation Bases For Alzheimer's
Train your clinicians on what reviewers will be looking for.How do you prove that your [...] - Human Resources:
Help Your Employees Deal With Their Baggage
When one of your employees experiences a personal tragedy, it can affect the entire office.If [...] - Industry Note:
Looming Hospital Pay Change Affects Home Care
Readmissions focus of Medicare's payment policy.Medicare wants to penalize hospitals with high 30-day readmission rates [...] - OASIS:
CMS Crackdown On OASIS Submission Starts This Fall
You must submit data for every episode, CMS says.Home health agencies that fail to submit [...] - Industry Note:
Director Fired For HIPAA Slip
If you're not paying too much attention to information security at your organization, prepare for [...] - Industry Note:
Check This List To Avoid Revalidation Confusion
Providers who miss revalidating their Medicare enrollment will face CMS revoking their billing privileges. You [...] - Industry Note:
Billing Fix On Deck
Hospices that have had problems with incorrect suspensions of claims with reason code 31411 will [...] - Industry Note:
Heed These ADR Tips
One HHH MAC wants to make the Additional Development Request (ADR) response process simpler for [...] - Industry Note:
Consider Adjustments For Dementia Coding Update
If you use dementia codes 294.20, (Dementia, unspecified, without behavioral disturbance) and 294.21 (Dementia, unspecified, [...] - Industry Note:
Tap These Billing Tools For Hospice
Need help with your hospice billing? HHH MAC NHIC has issued two new billing guides [...] - Industry Note:
Enroll A Month Earlier
You can get a jump on enrollment paperwork, thanks to new 855 submission deadlines. "Providers [...] - Industry Note:
Hospice Facility Building On The Rise
Following a trend seen across the country, one area of Virginia will see its hospice [...]
