Home Health & Hospice Week
Industry Notes:
Follow This NPI Search Tip
Published on Thu Jun 21, 2012
You can now resume your regularly scheduled NPI checks. CMS has now resolved "the latency and performance issues experienced with the National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES)," the agency reports. "The National Provider Identifier (NPI) Registry is fully operational again." To avoid future problems, CMS encourages users of the NPI Registry to exit the NPI Registry search and search results pages once they have completed their searches. "Users who do not exit off of the NPI Registry search pages will get a 'servlet error message' as a result of the timed out session (if session is idle)," CMS notes. Users then will have to log back into the system from the home page and start over.
Other Articles in this issue of
Home Health & Hospice Week
- Medical Review:
Therapy Tops Home Health Claims Errors
Flesh out therapy documentation to fight denials and downcodes.You'd better dot your i's and cross [...] - OASIS:
Expect Closer Scrutiny Of Your OASIS Assessments
HHAs see M2030 downcodes.Don't be surprised if medical reviewers are quicker to take your Medicare [...] - Hospice:
Follow These 7 Steps To Head Off Hospice GIP Denials
Make sure each GIP day can stand on its own.Your hospice General Inpatient claims may [...] - Diagnosis Coding:
Should Providers Go Straight To ICD-11?
Heavy-hitting trade group will weigh in.Home care providers who aren't thrilled with the switch to [...] - Budget:
MedPAC Revisits Home Health Copays In Report To Congress
Influential advisory body to Congress also focuses on home infusion.You'll have to deal with copayments [...] - Industry Notes:
Home Care Wins Funding In Innovations Awards
Telehealth, staff training draw federal dollars.The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services once again gave [...] - Industry Notes:
Hospice Saves Medicare Money
Besides all the good that hospice does for a patient and her family, the benefit [...] - Industry Notes:
Follow This NPI Search Tip
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Know When To Ignore Claim Suspensions
Don't waste time and energy when your claims get suspended, advises HHH MAC CGS in [...] - Industry Notes:
Home Health Chain Settles EEOC Disability Lawsuit
Medicare regulations aren't the only ones you have to worry about violating. Are you sure [...] - Industry Notes:
Doc To Pay Half Million For Accepting Kickbacks
Once again, the feds have gone after a physician who accepted kickbacks for referring patients [...] - Industry Notes:
Former HHA Owner Gets 9-Year Jail Term
Another stiff prison sentence has been handed down in the case against Houston-based Family Healthcare [...] - Industry Notes:
Regional Chain Gears Up For Acquisitions
Expect to see more acquisitions from seven-state chain Encompass Home Health Inc. The Dallas-based company, [...] - Industry Notes:
Tarheel State Adds Inpatient Hospice Facility
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