Home Health & Hospice Week
Industry Notes:
Now's The Time To Download PEPPER Benchmarking Report For Your HHA
Published on Fri Jul 24, 2015
Download your HHA PEPPER report now to see the data reviewers may use to single you out for review. The reports contain your stats compared to your peers for average case mix; average number of episodes; episodes with 5 or 6 visits; non-Low Utilization Payment Adjustment (LUPA) payments; and high therapy utilization episodes. CMS and its PEPPER contractor TMF Health Quality Institute released the reports July 20.
A WebEx training session introducing and reviewing the PEPPER is scheduled for July 30. See www.pepperresources.org for more information.
Other Articles in this issue of
Home Health & Hospice Week
- Compliance:
MAC Backtracks On End Date Physician Requirement
Agency can include service length estimate on POC to sign, MAC allows. The new regulatory [...] - Hospice:
Hospice Concurrent Care Demo Rolls Out On Big Scale
First phase begins Jan. 1. Hospices hope a new pilot project could broaden the hospice [...] - Reimbursement:
Hospices Question Demo Pay Adequacy
Plus: Did CMS drag its feet on the concurrent care pilot? A larger-than-expected response to [...] - Hospice:
More Problems Dog MCCM Demonstration
Pilot will take a decade to show results. Money isn’t the only concern when it [...] - Diagnosis Coding:
Get Friendly With Your New ICD-10 Manual
The book may be a little thicker than your ICD-9 manual, but don’t let that [...] - Industry Notes:
Therapy-Based Denials Cost HHAs Millions In Latest Review
Do your therapy evals contain these 11 items? It’s not only high-therapy claims that will [...] - Reader Question:
Is Your Vendor A Business Associate Under HIPAA?
Get your BA agreements in place before audits roll out. Question: We are contracting with [...] - Industry Notes:
Learn Face-To-Face Compliance Tips From HHH MAC's Pilot Project
If you feel like ripping your hair out when dealing with your physicians and face-to-face, [...] - Industry Notes:
Now's The Time To Download PEPPER Benchmarking Report For Your HHA
Download your HHA PEPPER report now to see the data reviewers may use to single [...] - Industry Notes:
Beware New Hospice Denial Codes Indicating NOE-Delaying ICD-9, ICD-10 Problems
Get to know three new reason codes that will point the way to diagnosis coding [...] - Industry Notes:
New HHA Star Ratings Raise Fraud Concerns
Medicare’s newest star ratings for HHAs are getting some mainstream press attention, and it may [...] - Industry Notes:
Health System, Chain Launch Joint Venture
UC San Diego Health and Dallas-based AccentCare have created a jointly owned home health agency [...]
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