Home Health & Hospice Week
Access These Free Training Sessions Offered By CMS
Want a way for your employees to brush up on Medicare basics? You can access a 30-minute Web-based training course from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, “The Medicare Home Health Benefit.” The session covers information on qualifying for home health services, consolidated billing, therapy services, billing, and payment. It is eligible for training credits.
To access the course, go to www.cms.gov/Outreach-and-Education/Medicare-Learning-Network-MLN/MLNProducts/index.html?redirect=/MLNProducts and under “Related Links click on “Web-based Training (WBT) Courses.”
Another recent home health WBT offering is “Home Health Change of Care Notice and Advance Beneficiary Notice of Noncoverage.”
Home Health & Hospice Week
- Face-To-Face:
Brace For Ramped Up F2F Review Under Medicare's New 'Probe And Educate' Initiative
Reviews will hit in 4 months. If your claims aren’t in tip top shape face-to-face-wise [...] - Education:
Use These Resources To Get Up To Speed On New F2F Rules
Have you looked at the F2F manual revisions yet? Were you hoping you could duck [...] - Medical Review:
Get A Sneak Peek At 'Probe And Educate' Review Procedures
Review can ramp up to hundreds of your claims relatively quickly. Wondering how the new [...] - Referrals:
Help Your Docs Obtain Chronic Care Pay With These Tips
Pointer: Docs must pick one or the other between CCM and CPO. Many of your [...] - Compliance:
Don't Fall For These 5 Common Compliance Myths
Check out these misconceptions and why you shouldn’t keep believing them. You could be lulling [...] - Compliance:
Beware Whistleblower-Driven Investigations
Employees often blindside owners, managers. A top compliance myth that has taken down many a [...] - Industry Notes:
MAC Ups Number Of Medical Review Targets
Palmetto adds ‘live discharges’ to its hit list. Hospices aren’t just taking a beating in [...] - Industry Notes:
Hospice Services Help Surviving Spouses Long After Care Ends, Study Shows
The Medicare hospice benefit may be under fire, but there’s no doubt it helps patients [...] - Industry Notes:
Study: HHA Profit Margins Cut Drastically Under Rebasing
Medicare reimbursement reductions are cutting home health agency operating margins to the bone, warns a [...] - Industry Notes:
PEPPER Training Session Nothing To Sneeze At As Report Date Set
Figure out how to use Medicare’s new home health agency benchmarking report by tuning into [...] - Industry Notes:
Don't Be Stingy With Your Patient Records Under HIPAA, HHS Instructs
If your patients ask to see their records, you should be ready to hand them [...] - Industry Notes:
Access These Free Training Sessions Offered By CMS
Want a way for your employees to brush up on Medicare basics? You can access [...]
