Home Health & Hospice Week
MBI Usage Rises Again
Providers submitting Medicare claims are closing in on the three-fourths mark for using MBIs. For the week ending March 22, providers nationwide used patients’ Medicare Beneficiary Identifiers on 68 percent of claims, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services says. Tip: If you’re not yet using MBIs on claims, “check your remittance advice for the MBI when you submit claims with valid and active HICNs,” HHH Medicare Administrative Contractor CGS advises in a new post. The MBI is included on both electronic and paper RAs. “Don’t wait till January 1, 2020, to start submitting your patient’s MBI on your claims,” CGS stresses. “If you have it, submit it! If you don’t have it, get it!” More MBI info, including lookup instructions, are at https://cgsmedicare.com/hhh/pubs/news/2019/0319/cope11891.html.
Home Health & Hospice Week
- Review Choice Demonstration:
HHAs In RCD Demo States Should Start Prep Yesterday
Don’t discount PDGM’s exacerbation of the pre-claim review program’s impact. Illinois home health agencies are [...] - Targeted Probe & Educate:
MAC: Like It Or Not, You're On The Hook For Physicians' Documentation
Tip: Make sure claim is supported before you submit it. You may not be able [...] - Survey & Certification:
Make Sure Your Administrator Reports Directly To Gov. Body
Keep working on compliance with new CoPs. You could risk a survey deficiency if you [...] - Conditions of Participation:
Know The CoPs Ruling Your Administrator Duties
Medicare surveyors cited hundreds of agencies on administrator CoP since new requirements took effect. Be [...] - Mergers & Acquisitions:
Publicly Traded Chain Buys 50-Year-Old Provider
Plus: Check out the latest deals from coast to coast. Acquisition of a longstanding agency [...] - Industry Note:
Check Your RAP Stats With This Report From Medicare
Get familiar with Comparative Billing Reports. You can find out if your Request for Anticipated [...] - Industry Note:
OIG Investigated Scores Of Hospices Last Year
Hospice oversight continues to ramp up, and a recent HHS Office of Inspector General report [...] - Finance:
Do You Know These New Cost Report Requirements?
If not, you could be risking payment suspension. You’ll soon receive a cost report reminder [...] - Industry Note:
MBI Usage Rises Again
Providers submitting Medicare claims are closing in on the three-fourths mark for using MBIs. For [...] - Industry Note:
Choose Who Signs Up For eServices Carefully
Illinois home health agencies getting ready to go under the Review Choice Demonstration need to [...] - Industry Note:
CMS Adds Podcast Ep
You can check out the latest episode of the podcast from the Centers for Medicare [...] - Industry Note:
Download Your New Hospice PEPPER
The newest hospice PEPPER report is now available. The free benchmarking report from Medicare covers the [...] - Industry Note:
GAO Pushes For More Prior Authorization
Don’t count on Medicare seeing the error of its ways when it comes to preauthorization [...] - Industry Note:
HH DON Fraudster Gets 10 Years In Prison
A federal judge has handed down another relatively stiff prison sentence related to a Houston [...]
