Home Health & Hospice Week
Hospices Get Early Look At Hospice Cap Amount
Use the info to make cap appeals decisions. Hospices have a lot of decisions to make this year, including how they want their cap amountcalculated. Now hospice providers can make an informed decision on the matter. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has released the 2011 hospice aggregate cap amount early this year, and it's $24,527.69. "To assist the hospice industry in planning and budgeting, CMS is making the aggregate cap amount for the 2011 cap year available in advance of the formal CMS administrative notice," which is scheduled for this summer, the agency says on its website. "We have included information about how we calculate the aggregate cap amount so that hospices can compute the amount themselves in the future if they so desire," CMS adds. CMS's early release of the cap also will help hospices "determine if they might benefit from CMS's ruling issued on April 14 explaining the manner in which the agency will address properly pending appeals related to proportional allocation of beneficiaries across cap years," the National Association for Home Care & Hospice says (see Eli's HCW, Vol. XX, No. 16, p. 127).
Home Health & Hospice Week
- Kickbacks:
Reconsider Your Online Referral Subscription
OIG gives thumbs down to referral software. Home care providers feeling cornered by hospitals' use [...] - Compliance:
Use These 4 Tips To Sidestep F2F, Therapy Compliance Pitfalls
Cast a compliance eye on the new regulatory requirements that hit April 1. Don't get [...] - Fraud & Abuse:
OIG Plans To Crack Down On Documentation Requirements
Mandatory compliance plans are on deck, OIG says in HEAT training session. Home care providers [...] - Compliance Plans:
Your Compliance Plan Should Include These 7 Elements
"While the specifics are still being ironed out through the regulatory process, we do know [...] - Disaster Planning:
Are Your Emergency Preparedness Plans Ready?
Recent natural disasters serve as grim reminders. Among the people affected by recent natural disasters [...] - Industry Note:
Hospices Get Early Look At Hospice Cap Amount
Use the info to make cap appeals decisions. Hospices have a lot of decisions to [...] - Industry Note:
New Agencies Can't Ignore OASIS
Recently enrolled HHAs should start submitting OASIS data by June 30 to avoid a 2 [...] - Industry Note:
Edits Checking Type Of Admission Codes Reactivated
Type of admission codes are giving hospices more headaches, but the issues soon should be [...] - Industry Note:
Medicaid F2F Requirement Looms On Your Horizon
If you haven't seen a physician face-toface requirement for home health and/or hospice in your [...] - Industry Note:
You'll See Vaccine Roster Billing Fix In July
A solution for vaccine roster billing will take effect in July. Now: "Reason code 31596 [...] - Industry Note:
Get Ideas For Vision-Related Falls Reduction Here
Looking for ways to help reduce falls in your visually impaired patient population? You may [...] - Industry Note:
Don't Forget "OTH PHYS" Field On Claims
Just because you can leave the "OTH PHYS" field on hospice notices of election blank [...] - Industry Note:
Two Regional Chains Merge Into One
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