Home Health & Hospice Week
Industry Notes:
HHAs Can Obtain Free Government Benchmarking Report This Summer
Published on Fri Mar 27, 2015
Home health agencies no longer need to feel left out when it comes to government benchmarking. TMF Health Quality Institute, the PEPPER contractor for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, plans to issue Program for Evaluating Payment Patterns Electronic Report (PEPPER) reports for home health agencies this July, it says on its website.
TMF will issue the HHA’s User’s Guide in June, it says.
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Home Health & Hospice Week
- Reimbursement:
No Foolin': OASIS Claims Matching Begins In A Few Days
Monitor closely to be sure your payments are correct under the new process. Get ready [...] - OASIS:
OASIS-Based Denials On The Horizon
Get your OASIS submission ducks in a row before your reimbursement depends on it. Think [...] - Hospice:
Beware These Hospice Red Flags
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MedPAC Voices Distrust Of For-Profits
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Doc Fix Hammered Out By Lawmakers May Pound HHAs
Current legislation would reduce payment update for HHAs, hospices. Will this be the year that [...] - Industry Notes:
HHAs Can Obtain Free Government Benchmarking Report This Summer
Home health agencies no longer need to feel left out when it comes to government [...] - Industry Notes:
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Put Off RAC Recoupments, Study Urges CMS
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