Home Health & Hospice Week
Industry Notes
• Four new individuals will be helping decide the fate of your Medicare reimbursement. The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission,which makes influential Medicare payment recommendations to Congress, has appointed four new members: Scott Armstrong, CEO of Group Health Cooperative, a health system in Seattle; Katherine Baicker, Professor of Health Economics at Harvard School of Public Health in Boston; Mary Naylor, Professor of Gerontology at the University of Pennsylvania, School of Nursing in Philadelphia; and Cori Uccello, Senior Health Fellow of the American Academy of Actuaries. Two existing commissioners were also reappointed to MedPAC: Thomas Dean, a family physician in Wessington Springs, S.D. and Herb Kuhn, CEO of the Missouri Hospital Association and former CMS official. Outgoing MedPAC commissioners include Bill Scanlon, formerly with the Government Accountability Office.
Home Health & Hospice Week
- Hospice:
Gentiva To Buy Odyssey For Nearly $1 Billion
Don't expect your hospice's valuation to go up as a result, one expert cautions. It's [...] - Mergers & Acquisitions; Home Health Deals Continue To Build
Check out the decade's largest home health transactions. Despite uncertain Medicare reimbursement and other pitfalls, [...] - Audits:
RACs Can No Longer Keep Fees After Losing Appeals
Plus: You'll soon be able to review the most common errors that the RACs find. [...] - Know Your Facts:
Recovery Audit Contractors: Know These RAC Fast Facts
RACs are just another tool in the government's arsenal to collect improper payments. You've got [...] - Education:
Sidestep Compliance Landmines With This Training
Check out Eli audioconferences on the CAHPS requirement, joint ventures, wound healing, HIPAA, QAPI, and [...] - Industry Notes:
Keep Track Of Your Incorrect NRS Payments
New system glitch is overpaying claims. Add one more headache to your Medicare claims pain [...] - Industry Notes
• Home care providers may benefit from a lawsuit filed by physician groups over the [...] - Industry Notes
• One part of the regional home health intermediary-to-Medicare Administrative Contractor (MAC) transition is moving [...] - Industry Notes
• Take time to fill out some user ID-related paperwork if National Government Services is [...] - Industry Notes
• Clinical review judgment (CRJ) may help you if your claims get caught up in [...] - Industry Notes
• Palmetto GBA's April 30 deadline to send in licensure information may be past, but [...] - Industry Notes
• Four new individuals will be helping decide the fate of your Medicare reimbursement. The [...] - Industry Notes
• If you feel like the authorities have turned a deaf ear when you've tried [...] - Industry Notes
• An April fix for the Medicare claims system incorrectly applying U5181 didn't work, reports [...] - Industry Notes
• Baton Rouge, La.-based LHC Group Inc. plans to buy Twin Falls, Idaho-based Idaho Home [...]
