Home Health & Hospice Week
Learn About Your Free Hospice Benchmarks
Newest version of PEPPER report should arrive in a few weeks.
Find out more about the PEPPER report’s new benchmarks addressing live discharges, diagnosis coding, and General Inpatient (GIP)/Continuous Home Care (CHC) provided in a free educational session.
Medicare’s PEPPER contractor TMF Health Quality Institute will furnish the program on April 28, or you can listen to an archived recording of the session starting May 13, the contractor says in a release. Information on how to access the session is at www.pepperresources.org/Training-Resources/Hospices in the right column.
TMF announced the new benchmark additions earlier this year (see Eli’s HCW, Vol. XXV, No. 11). The contractor will issue the reports around April 18, it says.
Home Health & Hospice Week
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Falling Payment, Utilization, And Margins Not Enough, MedPAC Insists
MedPAC profit margin claims based on faulty cost reporting system, audits, experts charge. You can’t [...] - Reimbursement:
Not Just Cuts: MedPAC Also Pushes Copays, Surety Bonds
Say goodbye to therapy money under latest recommendations. If Congress listens to the Medicare Payment [...] - Hospice:
Non-Cancer Diagnoses Catch MedPAC's Eye
Commission officially recommends 2017 rate freeze to Congress. Flat spending and a decrease in live [...] - Finance:
Publicly Traded Companies Gear Up For VBP
Plus: Chains stress their acquisition focus. Industry consolidation is the name of the game for [...] - HIPAA:
Don't Become A HIPAA Hostage
Should you pay a ransom to get your PHI back? Jaws dropped in the healthcare [...] - Compliance:
Take These 7 Steps To Fend Off PHI Hackers
How often are you training your staff on HIPAA? A recent case where a hospital [...] - Make The Most Of Your Eli's Home Care Week Subscription
You have more than a decade’s worth of information on a multitude of home health [...] - Industry Note:
Learn About Your Free Hospice Benchmarks
Newest version of PEPPER report should arrive in a few weeks. Find out more about [...] - Industry Note:
CMS Beating The Clock On Payment Shift
When the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced last year that it intended to [...] - Industry Note:
Accrediting Body Launches New Palliative Care Certification
Home care or other health care providers that furnish palliative care in the home, but [...] - Industry Note:
Hospital Shuts Down Home Health Division
Another hospital is closing its home care division under tight margins. Columbia Memorial Hospital in [...] - Industry Note:
Compassus Buy Extends Service Area To 30 States
Genesis HealthCare plans to sell the majority of its home health and hospice operations to [...] - Industry Note:
Texas-Based Company Makes Dallas Acquisition
Post-acute healthcare company Life-Care Holdings plans to acquire Haven Home Health for undisclosed terms, the [...] - Industry Note:
State, County Shed Home Health Programs
Government-run HHAs continue to become more scarce. Example: Six parties have submitted bids to purchase [...] - Industry Note:
Florida-Based Hospice Provider Files Bankruptcy To Sell
One hospice chain is facing the painful legacy of a whistleblower lawsuit. Jacksonville, Fla.-based American [...]
