Home Health & Hospice Week
Industry Notes
• You'd better pay close attention to your mail or risk having your Medicare billing privileges yanked before you know it. On April 12, regional home health intermediary Palmetto GBA sent home health agencies letters requiring submission of the HHA's licensure and/or accreditation. Agencies must submit the documentation by April 30. "Failure to submit valid state license and/or accreditation documentation by the requested date will result in your Medicare billing privileges being revoked," Palmetto warns. What's at stake: Under a new rule that took effect Jan. 1, if your billing privileges are revoked for any reason, you must undergo a new survey (see Eli's HCW, Vol. XIX, No. 2, p. 10). And many states are putting new surveys at the very bottom of their survey and certification priority list. A link to the notice and a cover sheet is at www.palmettogba.com/palmetto/providers.nsf/vMasterDID/84GSCW7337?opendocument.
Home Health & Hospice Week
- Legislation:
Health Care Reform Brings Host Of Changes To HHAs
More outlier revisions will lower your rates. The biggest home care cuts in the recently [...] - Regulations:
New PPACA Regulatory Requirements Will Add To Your Headaches
Get ready for some new physician-related burdens to increase your workload. A number of provisions [...] - Patient Satisfaction:
Get Ready: CAHPS Deadline Just Months Away
Exemption application for the patient satisfaction survey requirement due in June. If you've been putting [...] - Therapy:
Untimed Codes May Put Your Part B Therapy Claims At Risk
Don't let RACs bilk you out of this appropriate therapy billing. If you're a home [...] - Human Resources:
Command Respect With A Standardized Feedback Process
Consider these 6 pointers to keep your staff satisfied that you're being fair. As a [...] - Industry Notes:
Expect More RAC Attacks In The Future
And CMS is going to take RAC-discovered vulnerabilities more seriously. If you haven't heard from [...] - Industry Notes:
CMS Readies For More RAC-Inspired Responses
But RACs may be having less overall effect than you'd think. A new Government Accountability [...] - Industry Notes
• You'd better pay close attention to your mail or risk having your Medicare billing [...] - Industry Notes
• Don't forget about two new hospice billing requirements that take effect this month.Number 1: [...] - Industry Notes
• Medicare fraud isn't the only target for enforcement. The New York Medicaid Fraud Control [...] - Industry Notes
• No matter where you are in the country, you'll have to be an accredited [...] - Industry Notes
• The home health conditions of participation are back on the table once again. The [...] - Industry Notes
• If you've had your hospice claims returned with reason code 32024 recently, you may [...] - Industry Notes
• DME suppliers have more bad press to contend with as they continue their push [...] - Industry Notes
• The presence of nursing home-affiliated HHAs continues to grow. For example: In Vinton, Iowa, [...]
