Home Health & Hospice Week
Industry Notes:
Add 1 More Step To Your PECOS To-Do List
Published on Fri Jun 10, 2022
Navigating through PECOS will take you a little bit longer after Independence Day. “Starting July 5, PECOS will validate that you’ve read and acknowledged certification terms and conditions before you electronically submit your Medicare enrollment application,” the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services says in a recent MLN update. “You must review and scroll through each text box with certification requirements before you can click accept on the following pages: Submission, Home, and Remote E-sign,” CMS says.
Other Articles in this issue of
Home Health & Hospice Week
- Fraud & Abuse:
Don’t Expect Oversight To Let Up, Federal Report Indicates
Watchdog agency urges tightening up of hospice bundling. If you need a reminder of why [...] - Hospice:
Hospices Ask For More Significant Wage Index Relief
5% cap is too high, they tell CMS. For many years, pleas for help with [...] - Mergers & Acquisitions:
PE-Backed Chain Grows Rapidly
Plus: St. Croix enlarges Illinois presence. While the home health mergers & acquisitions market may [...] - Surveys & Certification:
Check Updated Survey Memo For Emergency Preparedness Testing Requirements
Clarifications may keep you out of hot water with surveyors. With the COVID-19 public health [...] - HIPAA:
Use These 7 Steps To Make Sure Your Patient Privacy Laws Comply With State Laws, Too
Caution: State regs may be tougher than federal regulations. It’s not just HIPAA you have [...] - Industry Notes:
States Have Another Year To Use Home- And Community-Based Services Funds
Especially during COVID, benes want to stay at home. Medicaid home care providers and their [...] - Industry Notes:
Medicare Switches Enrollment, CHOW, COI Functions From Regional Offices To Contractors For HHAs
Home health agencies will deal more with Medicare contractors and less with Centers for Medicare [...] - Industry Notes:
Add 1 More Step To Your PECOS To-Do List
Navigating through PECOS will take you a little bit longer after Independence Day. “Starting July [...] - Industry Notes:
Hospice Study's Findings On Dementia Patients' Care Surprises UC Researchers
A new study’s title shows what hospices have known all along — “Hospice Improves Care [...]
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