Home Health & Hospice Week
Industry Notes
• Hospice patients who revoke the hospice benefit don't have to wait any prescribed amount of time before re-electing it, regional home health intermediary Cahaba GBA says in its May newsletter to providers. "Upon revoking the election of Medicare coverage of hospice care for a particular election period, an individual resumes Medicare coverage of the benefits waived when hospice care was elected," CMS says in the Medicare Benefit Policy Manual. "An individual may at any time elect to receive hospice coverage." "Therefore, if the patient/family revokes the hospice benefit, they can re-elect at any time, as long as it is not the same day as the revocation," Cahaba explains in the newsletter. Of course, the patient must also meet the hospice coverage criteria.
Home Health & Hospice Week
- Fraud & Abuse:
Health Care Reform Brings Major Compliance Changes
One guilty-until-proven-innocent provision will shutter some blameless providers, expert says. Under the health care reform [...] - Audits:
Medicaid RACs Slated To Fire Up This Year
Will the new Medicaid bounty hunters duplicate MIC scrutiny? If you submit claims to Medicaid, [...] - Reimbursement:
PECOS Edits Hit HHAs, Suppliers At Same Time
You can't use your own NPI in the physician field starting this fall. You could [...] - Regulations:
Face-To-Face Encounters Affect Both HHAs And Hospices
And HHAs may be on the hook retroactively. If you were breathing a sigh of [...] - Labor Law:
Labor Law Changes Could Bring Trouble
DOL may revise companionship exemption, endorses penalties for misclassifying contractors. Federal changes for your home [...] - Industry Notes:
Get To Know New Outlier Cap Remittance Advice Codes
If you're trying to figure out whether your claims have been adjusted due to the [...] - Industry Notes
• The home care and therapy industries got a black eye from a Wall Street [...] - Industry Notes
• Medicare contractors will need to have a little better proof when they revoke your [...] - Industry Notes
• Get ready for more than 130 new ICD-9 diagnosis codes debuting on Oct. 1. [...] - Industry Notes
• Hospice patients who revoke the hospice benefit don't have to wait any prescribed amount [...] - Industry Notes
• If you need more ammo to convince lawand policymakers that funding home care makes [...] - Industry Notes
• You can stop worrying about coming up with a list of approved abbreviations, symbols, [...] - Industry Notes
• LHC Group Inc. saw positive earnings in the latest quarter. The Lafayette, La.-based chain [...] - Industry Notes
• For-profit hospice chain Odyssey Inc.'s earnings are on the upswing. The Dallas-based national chain's [...]
