Home Health & Hospice Week
Industry Note:
Joint Commission Offers Advice On Choosing Agencies
Published on Fri Sep 20, 2013
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Home Health & Hospice Week
- Regulations:
Retool Patient Notice Procedures For New CCN
Say goodbye to HHABN by Dec. 9.
The more things change, the [...] - Education:
Use This Table To Help Train Staff On New CCN Form - Compliance:
Know When To Use The Replacement ABN
Your HHABN may still apply into 2014. Just because CMS has done away with the [...] - Labor Law:
DOL Finalizes Restriction On Companionship Exemption
Aides will see hours cut. Get ready to add a new layer of bureaucracy to [...] - Diagnosis Coding:
CMS Downplays Costs Of Upcoming ICD-10 Conversion
Plus: ICD-10 will allow you to submit code letters as either upper- or lowercase, CMS [...] - Industry Note:
Cut These Unnecessary Business Associate Agreements
Are you unknowingly making these common hospice BAA mistakes? You should bring your HIPAA compliance [...] - Industry Note:
Rules Change For Therapy ABN
If you think you know how to deal with ABNs related to Part B therapy [...] - Industry Note:
Nix This Claim Type Next Month
Don’t forget that you can no longer use type of bill 33x as of Oct. [...] - Industry Note:
Watch For Coding Conversion Details Next Spring
Wondering which ICD-10 codes will be linked to LCDs? The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid [...] - Industry Note:
Medicare Makes Changes To Extended Repayment Plans
Don’t be surprised to see changes if you need to request an Extended Repayment Schedule. [...] - Industry Note:
Joint Commission Offers Advice On Choosing Agencies
An accrediting body is offering help to potential home care patients in choosing a pro-vider. [...] - Industry Note:
Nonprofit Hospice Providers In Florida Merge
Hospice by the Sea and Hospice of Palm Beach County/Hospice of Broward County are merging, [...] - Industry Note:
New HHA Chain-Hospital Joint Venture Focuses On Hospital Readmissions
Gentiva Health Services Inc. and Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in North Carolina are partnering [...] - Industry Note:
Another Health Dept. HHA To Close Its Doors
The Ford-Iroquois Public Health De-partment in Illinois will close its home health agency operated jointly [...] - Industry Note:
HH Fraudster Gets 4 years
A former Detroit HHA operator has received a four-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to [...]
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