Home Health & Hospice Week
Manual Now Reflects Transfer Clarifications, G Codes
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has released a lengthy update to Medicare's home health billing manual, but none of the information should be new to you. The updates in the 79-page CR 7338 cover the new G codes implemented Jan. 1, new details about billing for transfer patients, and other information released over the last few years. For example: "In order to ensure that otherproviders who may intend to provide HH services to a beneficiary have the benefit of the most current information via the CWF, CMS encourages primary HHAs to submit their RAPs as promptly as possible,"says the revised manual. The transmittal released May 27 is "basically catching up the manual with events that have already occurred," noted CMS's Wil Gehne in the May 25 Open Door Forum for home care providers. The manual is at www.cms.gov/transmittals/downloads/R2230CP.pdf and a related MLN Matters article is at www.cms.gov/MLNMattersArticles/downloads/MM7338.pdf.
Home Health & Hospice Week
- Regulations:
Therapy 30-Day Worries Hound Home Health Agencies
Face-to face, outliers, and quality data submission also discussed in latest Open Door Forum. Home [...] - OASIS:
Prepare For OASIS-C Quality Measures To Go Public
Has your OASIS data under the new assessment form been accurate? Wondering what exactly is [...] - Billing:
Are You And Your Vendor Ready To Use the 5010 Form?
The June 15 test date is here. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is [...] - HIPAA:
Employees Peeking at Patients' PHI? Soon, Patients May Know
HHS wants you to give patients access to a list of providers who accessed their [...] - Information Technology:
Maintain Enough Storage For Records Under 5010
Question: Our vendor oversees our medical records storage systems -- should they be able to show [...] - Industry Notes:
Fraud-Fighting Focus Racks Up Billions In Recoveries For OIG
Latest OIG report to Congress highlights HHA therapy fraud case. Citing a "period of intense [...] - Industry Note:
Make Sure Your Paperwork Is In Order For Smooth Cahaba-CIGNA Switch
The transition from Cahaba GBA to CIGNA Government Services is at hand, and you should [...] - Industry Note:
Manual Now Reflects Transfer Clarifications, G Codes
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has released a lengthy update to Medicare's home [...] - Industry Note:
Public Reports On Your Quality, Cost On Deck
You could soon be under even more public scrutiny than Home Health Compare brings you. [...] - Industry Note:
Beware F2F Checkboxes
You should keep checkboxes off the face-to-face documentation forms you give physicians to sign. F2F [...] - Industry Note:
Watch For CMS Transmittal On Hospice F2F Billing
Watch for a forthcoming CMS transmittal on how to handle hospice billing when the face-to-face [...] - Industry Note:
Access HEAT Training
You can now tune into the same HEAT compliance training that the HHS Office of [...] - Industry Note:
Deadline For PECOS Edits Still Up In The Air
You can put PECOS edits a little further down on your crowded priority list. CMS [...] - Industry Note:
Put NPI On Your Check
If you need to make a repayment to Medicare and Palmetto GBA is your MAC, [...] - Industry Note:
National Chain Pays $12.5M To Settle Fraud Charges
Cost-based reimbursement may be long in the past, but a multi-million-dollar settlement may make it [...]
