Home Health & Hospice Week
Senate Confirms New HHS Secretary
As expected, the popular Director of the White House Office of Management and Budget has become the next HHS leader. After sailing through two Senate confirmation hearings, the Senate confirmed Sylvia Mathews Burwell as HHS Secretary on June 5.
The National Association for Home Care & Hospice is “pleased that Sylvia Mathews Burwell has been confirmed as Secretary of HHS,” says NAHC’s Val Halamandaris in a statement. “She brings a wealth of health care and budget experience from her previous work in both the private and public sectors. She will be an outstanding secretary, and the home care and hospice industry looks forward to working with her to provide high-quality health care in America.”
Burwell’s focus will likely be on the continued implementation of the Affordable Care Act’s “Obamacare” health law. But she did tell senators that she hoped to avoid using the ACA-created In-dependent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB), oft-en referred to as “super-MedPAC.”
Home Health & Hospice Week
- Medical Review:
Improve Communication For High-Therapy Claims Review
Study the data to home in on problem areas. High-therapy claims are under intense re-view, [...] - Hospice:
Finalize Your HIS Prep In The Next 2 Weeks
Watch out for noncompliance with the completion date. Whether you’ve been working diligently on Hospice [...] - Quality:
Your HIS Data Will Result In These 7 Quality Measures
Plus: Get to know the HIS tool sections that will generate the quality standards. It’s time [...] - Data Collection:
Master HIS Collection With These 11 Tips
Tracking deadlines is essential to compliance. Your future reimbursement is on the line in more [...] - Resources:
Use Array Of Educational Resources For HIS Implementation
Have you checked out all of CMS’s instructions on filling out the Hospice Item Set? [...] - Industry Notes:
Avoid Mistake That Caused Biggest-Ever HIPAA Settlement
Double-check your system safeguards. If you search your loved one’s name on the internet, the [...] - Industry Notes:
Senate Confirms New HHS Secretary
As expected, the popular Director of the White House Office of Management and Budget has [...] - Industry Notes:
Note These Program Integrity Manual Changes Regarding Authorized Officials
Updates to Medicare’s Provider Integ-rity Manual have resulted in changes to the pro-vider enrollment process, [...] - Industry Notes:
Medicare Administrative Contractor Gives More Time To Recertify
You’ve got a little more time to recertify for DDE access if National Government Ser-vices [...] - Industry Notes:
One Medicare Administrative Contractor Offers More Details For Claims Denials
You should get more information about denials that come from one HHH Medicare Admin-istrative Contractor. [...] - Industry Notes:
Nurse Owners Sell Decades-Old Agency
A former hospital executive has purchased Tyler, Texas-based Genesis Homecare & Hospice, reports the Tyler [...]
