Home Health & Hospice Week
Industry Note:
New PEPPER Data Out
Published on Fri Jul 21, 2017
Get your latest free benchmarking stats from Medicare. A new release of the Home Health Agency Program for Evaluating Payment Patterns Electronic Report (PEPPER), with statistics through December 2016, is now available, PEPPER contractor TMF Health Quality Institute says in a release. You can download the report online at PEPPER resources.org.
Other Articles in this issue of
Home Health & Hospice Week
- Conditions of Participation:
Prioritize These 6 Challenges In Your CoP Prep
Will your vendors be as ready as you are? While home health agencies are happy [...] - Regulations:
Beware States Lagging On CoPs
States are dragging their feet on subunits, state licensure changes. You’ve been working steadily on [...] - Fraud & Abuse:
OIG On The Hunt For Fraud Indicators In Your Data
Your own data may single you out for scrutiny. This month shows why you should [...] - Enforcement:
Home Health, Hospice Fraud Remains Front & Center
Fraud takedown highlights Medicare fraud. Convincing lawmakers you need a break might be even more [...] - Industry Note:
Live Discharge Rate Linked To Profitability, Study Finds
What does your live discharge rate suggest about your hospice? A new study adds fuel [...] - Industry Note:
MAC Denies 9% Of High-Resource Claims In One Review
Therapy once again tops the reasons for denials in Palmetto GBA’s latest medical review effort. [...] - Industry Note:
OIG Educates Providers On How To Report Fraud — Anonymously
Whistleblower lawsuits are costing home care providers big. But disgruntled employees don’t have to resort [...] - Industry Note:
Know When To Include Another NPI On Claims
You’ll need to know the NPIs of the facilities in which your patients reside when [...] - Industry Note:
HH Nearly Only Sector With Spending Decrease
While policy- and lawmakers seem to be furiously throwing up roadblocks to home health growth [...] - Industry Note:
Keep Tabs On Your Revalidation Deadline
You may want to check CMS’s revalidation schedule to see if your date is coming up [...] - Industry Note:
New PEPPER Data Out
Get your latest free benchmarking stats from Medicare. A new release of the Home Health [...] - Industry Note:
HealthSouth Changes Name
HealthSouth Corp. will change its name to Encompass Health Corp., effective in January, the Birmingham, [...] - Industry Note:
Free HIPPA BA Tool
If one of your business associates commits a HIPPA breach with your patients’ data, you [...] - Industry Note:
Medicaid HH Funding Still In Peril
The Senate’s version of an Obamacare repeal-and-replace bill has failed to pass the Senate, but [...]
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