Home Health & Hospice Week
Industry Notes
• No matter where you are in the country, you'll have to be an accredited durable medicalequipment supplier if you want to furnish support surfaces. CMS removed "Miami only" as a limit for claims edits that will check supplier accreditation status for claims containing certain support surfaces. CMS removed the Miami-only restriction on the edit at the request of the contractor, the agency says in a new transmittal that replaces the Dec. 23, 2009 missive that first set out the accreditation edits (see Eli's HCW, Vol. XIX, No. 1, p. 7). The updated transmittal also clarifies the remittance advice remark code and claims adjustment reason code contractors will use for the accreditation edits. The edits will begin July 1 for the items specified in the transmittal online at www.cms.gov/transmittals/downloads/R669OTN.pdf. An updated MLN Matters article about the edits is online at www.cms.gov/MLNMattersArticles/downloads/MM6566.pdf.
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, [...]
