Home Health & Hospice Week
Check Your CASPER Folders For Bad Hospice News
Reconsideration request due date is coming up fast. It’s that time of year again — time to find out whether Medicare is docking your pay for quality reporting reasons. Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs) placed notifications to facilities that were determined to be out of compliance with Quality Reporting Program (QRP) requirements for CY 2021 into facilities’ CASPER folders in QIES on July 13th, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services says in a message to providers. The noncompliance for 2021 will affect hospices’ 2023 payment rates. “Facilities that receive a letter of non-compliance may submit a request for reconsideration to CMS via email no later than 11:59 pm, August 11th, 2022,” the agency instructs in the message. CMS’ reconsideration requests webpage is at www.cms.gov/Medicare/Quality-Initiatives- Patient-Assessment-Instruments/Hospice-Quality-Reporting/ Reconsideration-Requests.
Home Health & Hospice Week
- Value-Based Purchasing:
Get Serious About VBP With New Resources From Medicare
Heads up: Sample reports are coming soon. It’s summertime and the living is not easy [...] - Covid-19:
Prepare For PHE’s End Even As New Renewal Announced
Public Health Emergency now approved through October. With COVID cases on the rise, the feds [...] - Fraud & Abuse:
VA Nurse, Pharmacist, Paramedic Among Those Charged For COVID Vax Card Fraud
Cards sold for as little as $40 to as much as $250 in schemes. When [...] - Mergers & Acquisitions:
Home Health, Hospice Shut-Downs Concern Communities
New hospice inpatient facilities open. Local governments continue to get out of the home health [...] - Oasis:
Disregard OASIS-E Guidance Manual For D0150/D0160, New OASIS FAQs Say
Here’s when to use dashes — and when not to. With OASIS-E implementation looming on [...] - Industry Notes:
Check Your CASPER Folders For Bad Hospice News
Reconsideration request due date is coming up fast. It’s that time of year again — [...] - Industry Notes:
New HH PEPPER Reports Are Out
Home health agencies have a new PEPPER benchmarking report to help them judge their performance [...] - Industry Notes:
Step Up For These TEPs
If you’d like to give Medicare officials your opinion on the new hospice Special Focus [...] - Industry Notes:
New Study Pushes Copays, Greater Physician Involvement In HH
If you can’t figure out why home health spending fluctuates greatly from place to place, [...] - Industry Notes:
Primary HH Dx Should Be 'Addressed' In F2F Visit, MAC Says
When reviewing the referring physician’s face-to-face encounter documentation, it would be wise to keep one [...] - Industry Notes:
Comment On HH Rule By Aug. 16
The home health proposed rule for 2023 is officially open for public comment, the Centers [...] - Industry Notes:
Hospices Face 'Effective' Rate Cut With Modest 2.7% Pay Bump, Reps Say
With the hospice final rule for fiscal year 2023 expected soon, industry representatives are preemptively [...] - Industry Notes:
Learn About The Phish Scale For HIPAA Health
If you want to avoid breaches of protected health information, it’s time to learn about [...]
