Home Health & Hospice Week
Industry Note:
Make Sure Your Docs Are In PECOS With New Site
Published on Thu Oct 01, 2015
Update your bookmarks to make sure you don’t lose out on your rightful reimbursement due to your referring physicians.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has made the link to the “Ordering Referring Report” available at https://data.cms.gov — click on the “Order and Referring” link in the list of “Datasets and Views.” Remember, if you submit claims for services or items ordered/referred and the ordering or referring physician’s information is not in the PECOS system, your claims will deny.
Other Articles in this issue of
Home Health & Hospice Week
- Value-Based Purchasing:
HHAs Blast Number Of Value- Based Purchasing Measures
HHAs and MedPAC actually agree on something. If Medicare wants to increase home care quality [...] - Reimbursement:
What Measures Should Make The VBP Cut?
Hospitalization metric is a shoe-in. Value-Based Purchasing in home care is inevitable, so home care [...] - Prospective Payment System:
Many VBP Measures Aren't Up To Snuff
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Too Much Is Not A Good Thing: 29 Proposed VBP Measures
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Don't Expect HIPAA To Save You From Whistleblower Suits
Court decision shows some standards, however. One of the few exceptions under HIPAA for disclosing [...] - Industry Note:
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System doesn’t check for NOE-claim coding match. Don’t cost yourself time and money for no [...] - Industry Note:
White House Upbraids HHS For Improper Payment Rate, Urges More Aggressive Tactics
Although it might feel like the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is doing everything [...] - Industry Note:
CMS Dedicates Tens Of Millions To Reducing Hospitalizations In Newest Funding Push
A new funding push to reduce hospital readmissions underscores the measure’s importance for your referring [...] - Industry Note:
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