Home Health & Hospice Week
Steer Clear Of These Prohibited CAHPS Questions
You can add supplemental questions to your Home Health Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems survey, but not just any kind of questions. "It is not acceptable to add questions to the HHCAHPS Survey that are intended to market or promote services provided by the HHA or any other organization, nor is it acceptable to add questions asking sample patients to identify other individuals who may need home health care services," the HHCAHPS vendor RTI says on the CAHPS website. "Questions about other individuals needing home health care are not permitted, due to privacy and confidentiality issues they raise if personally identifying information ... were to be shared with the home health agency without that person's knowledge and permission." The CAHPS site is at https://homehealthcahps.org. The tool surveys patient experiences in receiving services from Medicare-certified home health agencies. If agencies' approved vendors don't collect and report CAHPS data now, Medicare will dock their reimbursement 2 percent starting in 2014.
Home Health & Hospice Week
- Referrals:
F2F Requirements Cut Into Home Care Referrals
CMS defends its face-to-face documentation requirements for physicians. Face-to-face documentation may be out of your [...] - Regulations:
Homebound Problems Dominate Claims Denials
CMS also discusses new OASIS form, PPS rate cuts, and more at industry conference. Expect [...] - Fraud & Abuse:
Hospices Feature In Fraud Cases
Whistleblower case leads to $700,000 settlement. It's not just owners of shady hospices that the [...] - Reimbursement:
Is Outdated Coding Delaying Your Reimbursement?
Watch out for these old codes. If you're receiving denied claims due to diagnosis coding [...] - Diagnosis Coding:
Avoid These Invalid Codes
Additional codes that became invalid for 2012 include: 286.5 (Hemorrhagic disorder due to intrinsic circulating [...] - Industry Note:
Keep An Eye On IPAB Legislation
Providers band together to protest Medicare payment board. The U.S. House of Representatives has passed [...] - Industry Note:
Double-Check These Exceptions When You Miss The Timely Filing Deadline
Think you'll have to kiss some Medicare reimbursement good-bye because you missed the timely filing [...] - Industry Note:
Steer Clear Of These Prohibited CAHPS Questions
You can add supplemental questions to your Home Health Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and [...] - Industry Note:
Diabetes Prevention Saves Money And Boosts Outcomes
Your current and future patients may benefit from new research findings about preventing diabetes. A [...] - Industry Note:
Stick To Monthly Billing For Hospice, MAC Stresses
If you submit more than one claim per hospice patient per month, you're on Palmetto [...] - Industry Note:
Download Newest PPS Pricer From CMS
You can download a new prospective payment system pricer for 2011. The PPS pricer, which [...] - Industry Note:
Bookkeeper Embezzled $171K From Hospice
Be sure you're monitoring your financial employees closely, or they may be taking money out [...] - Industry Note:
SNF Class Action Settlement Benefits California Hospice
Poor behavior on the part of a nursing home chain has resulted in a boon [...]
