Home Health & Hospice Week
Industry Note:
View HIS Coding, HQRP Training At Your Leisure
Published on Fri Apr 06, 2018
Help for hospices is now available from Medicare in a number of new educational offerings. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has released two self-directed training modules via its Youtube channel. The modules cover Hospice Item Set coding and navigation of the websites pertinent to the Hospice Quality Reporting Program (HQRP), CMS says in a release. The HIS coding training has eight modules while the HQRP website training has five modules.
Other Articles in this issue of
Home Health & Hospice Week
- OASIS:
Submit Your OASIS-D Suggestions Before It's Too Late
Comment early and often. If you think Medicare needs to change some things about the [...] - Managed Care:
Watch For Business Opportunities As Medicare Allows MA Plans To Cover Aide Services
Key: Help show that aide services will 'reduce avoidable emergency and healthcare utilization.' Exactly how [...] - Regulations:
Stark Law Fate Uncertain, CMS Administrator Indicates
Will a decades-long prohibition on physician referrals and ownership get the ax? Home care and [...] - Medical Review:
Pay Attention To Midstream TPE Education
Improving your billing rate in the middle of a Targeted Probe & Educate round could [...] - Diagnosis Coding:
Stop Using ICD-9 As A Coding Crutch
Remember, you won't get any more GEMs. Question: I often find myself coding ICD-9 in [...] - Industry Note:
MACs Get Marching Orders To Reprocess Rural Add-On Claims
Remember: This is the last year of a full add on under BBA 18. As [...] - Industry Note:
Share These Recert Estimate Tips With Your Docs
Are you risking denials with records that include an insufficient physician recertification estimate - or [...] - Industry Note:
Half Of Docs Spend Less Than A Minute Reviewing 485
A new study by Johns Hopkins University researchers underscores what many home care providers have [...] - Industry Note:
View HIS Coding, HQRP Training At Your Leisure
Help for hospices is now available from Medicare in a number of new educational offerings. [...] - Industry Note:
New Quality Measure Aims To ID Problem Discharges
Now's your chance to comment on a new quality measure Medicare is readying to address [...] - Make The Most Of Your Eli's Home Care Week Subscription
You have 15 years' worth of information on a multitude of home health topics at [...] - Industry Note:
Double-Check Who Is Signing Your Cost Reports
Some newly announced changes for home health agency cost reports may alter how you submit [...] - Industry Note:
Massive Merger Of LHC, Almost Family Complete
Two publicly traded chains, LHC Group Inc. and Almost Family Inc., have completed their merger. [...] - Industry Note:
Private Duty Chain Addus Makes Major Acquisition
Private duty chain Addus HomeCare Corp. has purchased the assets of Arcadia Home Care & [...] - Industry Note:
Updated Hospice PEPPER Reports Out Soon
Get ready for an update to the free benchmarks Medicare provides you through the PEPPER [...]
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