Home Health & Hospice Week
Hospice PEPPER Training Full
If you're trying to figure out how to use the new hospice comparative billing report Medi-care has sent you, you may have to wait a bit longer. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is issuing a Program for Evaluating Pay-ment Patterns Electronic Report (PEPPER) report to every Medicare hospice via PEPPER contractor TMF Health Quality Institute. Distribution should be complete by late August, TMF expects. TMF has offered a Sept. 13 training session on the report, but the session already is full, the contractor says on its PEPPER website. Second chance: TMF will post a recording of the training session by Sept. 27, it promises. Plus, you can attend a hospice PEPPER question-and-answer session Oct. 4 at 1 p.m. CT. Dial-in information is online at http://pepperresources.org/TrainingResources/Hospice.aspx, along with a user's guide, demo report, and other information.
Home Health & Hospice Week
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Review Your Employee Bonuses Carefully
New indictment casts doubt on furnishing employee incentives.What you call a good marketing strategy, the [...] - Prospective Payment System:
Brace For Case Mix Diagnosis Coding Changes In 2013
Will you take a hit on resolved diagnoses?Prepare to see a reduction in home health [...] - Diagnosis Coding:
Grouper Calculation To Change Based On This Coding Shift
PPS methodology leaves agencies with questions.The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' 2013 PPS proposed [...] - Case Mix:
Use Only These V Codes In M1024
These codes were included in the Cen-ters for Medicare & Medicaid Services' Attach-ment D list [...] - Industry Note:
Home Care Companies Hit Acquisition Trail
Providers change hands nationwide.Home care providers have been busy in the mergers and acquisitions market.Among [...] - Industry Note:
OIG Wants Outlier Cap Lowered
HHAs serving a high number of outlier patients under the prospective payment system may see [...] - Industry Note:
Hospice PEPPER Training Full
If you're trying to figure out how to use the new hospice comparative billing report [...] - Industry Note:
New Round Of DME Bidding Launches
Registration is now open for Medicare's competitive bidding round 1 recompete for durable medical equipment, [...] - Industry Note:
Recovery Audit Contractor Prepayment Reviews Start This Month
Now that Recovery Audit Contractors have named home health agencies as specific targets (see Eli's [...] - Industry Note:
Senior Population Continues To Grow As Challenges To Recruiting Aides Intensify
Your patient pool will continue to grow in coming years, confirms a new government report. [...] - Industry Note:
Medicare Smoothes Some Of PECOS' Rough Edges
Registering with CMS's PECOS system has had its share of headaches, but CMS has made [...] - Industry Note:
Miami HHA Owner Pleads Guilty In $60M Scheme
A Miami home health agency owner has entered the latest guilty plea in a $60 [...] - Industry Note:
Download Newest Version Of PPS Pricer, Including A Fix For LUPA Add-On
You can download an updated version of the HH PPS PC Pricer at www.cms.gov/Medicare/Medicare-Fee-for-Service-Payment/PCPricer/HH.html. It [...]
