Home Health & Hospice Week
New Round Of DME Bidding Launches
Registration is now open for Medicare's competitive bidding round 1 recompete for durable medical equipment, CMS has announced. The registration period will end Oct. 19, but CMS urges DME suppliers to register their authorized official in the Individuals Authorized Access to the CMS Compu-ter Services (IACS) system by Sept. 7. Six categories of items are included in the round 1 recompete, bidding contractor Palmetto GBA says on the bidding site online at www.dme competitivebid.com. They include Respiratory Equipment and Related Supplies and Accessories (oxygen, oxygen equipment, and supplies; continuous positive airway pressure [CPAP] devices and respiratory assist devices [RADs] and related supplies and accessories; and standard nebulizers); Standard Mobility Equipment and Related Acces-sories (walkers, standard power and manual wheelchairs, scooters, and related accessories); General Home Equipment and Related Supplies and Acces-sories (hospital beds and related accessories, group 1 and 2 support surfaces, transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation [TENS] devices, commode chairs, patient lifts, and seat lifts); Enteral Nutrients, Equi-pment and Supplies; Negative Pressure Wound Therapy Pumps and Related Supplies and Acces-sories; and External Infusion Pumps and Supplies.
Home Health & Hospice Week
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Review Your Employee Bonuses Carefully
New indictment casts doubt on furnishing employee incentives.What you call a good marketing strategy, the [...] - Prospective Payment System:
Brace For Case Mix Diagnosis Coding Changes In 2013
Will you take a hit on resolved diagnoses?Prepare to see a reduction in home health [...] - Diagnosis Coding:
Grouper Calculation To Change Based On This Coding Shift
PPS methodology leaves agencies with questions.The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' 2013 PPS proposed [...] - Case Mix:
Use Only These V Codes In M1024
These codes were included in the Cen-ters for Medicare & Medicaid Services' Attach-ment D list [...] - Industry Note:
Home Care Companies Hit Acquisition Trail
Providers change hands nationwide.Home care providers have been busy in the mergers and acquisitions market.Among [...] - Industry Note:
OIG Wants Outlier Cap Lowered
HHAs serving a high number of outlier patients under the prospective payment system may see [...] - Industry Note:
Hospice PEPPER Training Full
If you're trying to figure out how to use the new hospice comparative billing report [...] - Industry Note:
New Round Of DME Bidding Launches
Registration is now open for Medicare's competitive bidding round 1 recompete for durable medical equipment, [...] - Industry Note:
Recovery Audit Contractor Prepayment Reviews Start This Month
Now that Recovery Audit Contractors have named home health agencies as specific targets (see Eli's [...] - Industry Note:
Senior Population Continues To Grow As Challenges To Recruiting Aides Intensify
Your patient pool will continue to grow in coming years, confirms a new government report. [...] - Industry Note:
Medicare Smoothes Some Of PECOS' Rough Edges
Registering with CMS's PECOS system has had its share of headaches, but CMS has made [...] - Industry Note:
Miami HHA Owner Pleads Guilty In $60M Scheme
A Miami home health agency owner has entered the latest guilty plea in a $60 [...] - Industry Note:
Download Newest Version Of PPS Pricer, Including A Fix For LUPA Add-On
You can download an updated version of the HH PPS PC Pricer at www.cms.gov/Medicare/Medicare-Fee-for-Service-Payment/PCPricer/HH.html. It [...]
