Home Health & Hospice Week
Industry Notes
• Don't worry that surveyors will be using your OASIS C data to target survey activities any time soon. Surveyors won't get new survey instructions based on OASIS C until outcome-based quality improvement (OBQI) reports based on OASIS C are available, noted CMS's Pat Sevast at the National Association for Home Care & Hospice's March on Washington meeting this month. Right now OBQI reports are suspended during the transition to OASIS C. Process measurebased reports will be available in September and outcome-based reports will be available again in May 2011, reported CMS's Robin Dowell. Surveyors will pull your most recent OASIS B-1-based reports for surveys, Sevast explained. The last B-1 reports came out April 15.
Home Health & Hospice Week
- Regulations:
Licensure & Accreditation Request To Hit All HHAs
CAHPS deadline, OASIS C Manual among other topics raised in Open Door Forum. Don't breathe [...] - Reimbursement:
Submit Your RAPs Quickly To Keep Supplies Billing On Track
Don't shirk your consolidated billing duties, the feds tell home care providers. Are you doing [...] - Legislation:
Face-To-Face Requirement Applies To Hospices Only,CMS Clarifies
Hospices are in for more medical review under health care reform package. The new health [...] - Pay for Performance:
3 Of 4 P4P Demo Regions See Savings
Agencies in non-savings area 'disappointed' to miss out on program rewards. Lots of home health [...] - Enrollment:
New PECOS Rules May Lighten Home Care Providers' Load
Non-Medicare physicians now can enroll in PECOS, CMS says. Home care providers will soon see [...] - Industry Notes:
Beware Unintentional Upcoding With Managed Care Patients
Do you know when to count episodes as 'early' or 'late' after patients' Medicare Advantage enrollment [...] - Industry Notes
• Watch out for errors on your 1099 Misc form, or you could be in [...] - Industry Notes
• CMS isn't planning on releasing thespecifics of its financial standards for DME competitive bidding, [...] - Industry Notes
• Don't worry that surveyors will be using your OASIS C data to target survey [...] - Industry Notes
• If you've got questions about the recovery audit contractors (RACs), a new series of [...] - Industry News
• When you're working out your plan to transition to ICD-10 diagnosis coding, don't expect [...] - Industry News
• Don't forget to take a moment next month to recognize your nursing staff's efforts. [...] - Industry News
• If you want to steer clear of fraud and abuse charges from Medicare, you [...] - Industry News
• Short funds are leading to short-sighted thinking by some state legislators. The Missouri state [...] - Industry News
• The pitfalls of Medicare competitive bidding for durable medical equipment are getting some mainstream [...] - Industry News
• Medicare isn't the only place where home care fraud is giving legit providers a [...]
