Home Health & Hospice Week
Providers Gain Much-Needed Breathing Room On Employer Mandate
Many home care providers are breathing a sigh of relief at the latest Obamacare delay. Small businesses with fewer than 100 full time em-ployees will not have to comply with the Affordable Care Act employer mandate until 2016 — a one-year delay, the White House has announced.
The National Association for Home Care & Hospice’s Val Halamandaris commends the Obama Administration for "listening to the pleas of the American public — including the home care and hospice community."
Larger companies are also getting a delay. Companies employing 100 or more full time workers must provide health insurance to 70 percent of full-time employees by 2015 and 95 percent of full-time workers by 2016.
Reminder: Workers with fewer than 50 full time workers are exempt from the employer mandate.
Ahead: NAHC is still lobbying to secure change to the definition of full time worker. The trade group wants the threshold raised from 30 hours per week to 40 hours per week.
Home Health & Hospice Week
- Face-To-Face:
F2F Denials Are Growing
MAC to discontinue one therapy-focused probe. Face-to-face physician encounter denials are not easing following Medicare’s [...] - Documentation:
Review This MAC's Documentation Checklist To Protect Against Medical Necessity Denials
How well do your patients’ records tell their story? Wondering how to make sure your [...] - Medical Review:
Beef Up Documentation To Avoid Medical Necessity Pitfalls
Be sure to cover all your technical bases, too. The physician face-to-face encounter re-quirement may [...] - Hospice:
Limit Your Respite Care Billing To 5 Consecutive Days
Claims with respite care stretching more than 5 days will RTP starting this summer. Hospices [...] - Reimbursement:
Use Reopening For Certain PECOS Edit Denials, MAC Says
Good news may lighten your PECOS edit load. Don’t waste time on the resource-consuming, risky [...] - Industry Note:
HIS Implementation May Overwhelm Hospices
Take time out to watch new CMS HIS training. You can now learn more about [...] - Industry Note:
Providers Gain Much-Needed Breathing Room On Employer Mandate
Many home care providers are breathing a sigh of relief at the latest Obamacare delay. [...] - Industry Note:
Cancel NOE When Previous Hospice Asks Or For Coding Mistakes, MAC Says
If you have an error on your hospice patient’s Notice of Election (NOE), you’ll have [...] - Industry Note:
Looming Doc Fix Deadline Threatens Home Care
As the March 31 deadline for the Medi-care physician pay cut nears, home care providers [...] - Industry Note:
Know ICD-10 Testing Requirements For Next Month
March 3 is only a few weeks away, so MACs are prepping now for ICD-10 [...] - Industry Note:
Detroit HHA, Therapy Company Co-Owner Gets 10 Years In Prison
A Detroit-area HHA owner has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for his 2012 [...] - Industry Note:
Beleaguered Gentiva Reveals It Will Close 46 Locations, Lay Off Hundreds Of Workers
Trying reimbursement times are leading to expansion for some and contraction for others. Gentiva Health [...]
