Home Health & Hospice Week
Industry Notes:
Tune In For Free PEPPER Report Training
Published on Fri Sep 19, 2014
Confused about how to use your hospice PEPPER report? PEPPER contractor TMF Health Quality Institute will host an Oct. 2 webinar ex-plaining the ins and outs of the hospice Program for Evaluating Payment Patterns Electronic Report.
Information to dial into the 1 p.m. ET webinar is online at http://pepperresources.org/Training Resources/Hospice.aspx in the “Training” box on the right side of the page. TMF will post a recording of the webinar after the event.
Other Articles in this issue of
Home Health & Hospice Week
- Face-To-Face:
Agencies Give CMS An Earful On F2F Burdens
Burdensome face-to-face requirement is keeping patients from entering home care. The feds got at least [...] - Compliance:
Face-To-Face Costs Are Crippling Home Health Agencies
Rule commenters note added FTEs to deal with the F2F burden. The face-to-face physician encounter [...] - Regulations:
HHAs Skewer Proposal To Base Eligibility Determination On Docs' Clinical Records
Can agencies obtain F2F relief instead of just a burden swap? If CMS thinks it [...] - Prospective Payment System:
One Agency's Letter Encapsulates F2F Struggles
Agencies are between a rock and a hard spot, and that rock is poised to [...] - Human Resources:
Take These 3 Steps To Keep Your Employees Engaged
Follow this expert advice to create a ‘get it done’ culture in your agency. Think [...] - Industry Notes:
Do You Know Your NPI From Your PTAN?
CMS offers tips on these basics. You know just where to list your NPI on [...] - Industry Notes:
Resubmitting PECOS Edit- Booted Claims Won't Work
Hold your horses if you are trying to correct a PECOS-edit related error. HHH Medicare [...] - Industry Notes:
AHATakes On HHS Over Claims Extrapolation
Extrapolation of claims errors may not bedevil home care providers as much under prospective payment [...] - Industry Notes:
Transfer Hospice Patients Get Double HIS
Transfer patients get a double helping of data under the new Hospice Item Set system. [...] - Industry Notes:
Tune In For Free PEPPER Report Training
Confused about how to use your hospice PEPPER report? PEPPER contractor TMF Health Quality Institute [...] - Industry Notes:
MAC Offers Job Aid For Timely Claims Filing
Don’t think a claim adjustment will get you out of Medicare’s one-year timely filing deadline. [...] - Industry Notes:
Bankrupt Hospice Pays Nearly $3M To Settle Charges
A big chunk of San Diego Hospice’s remaining assets are going to its former employees [...] - Hospice:
Focus On These Cancer Patients To Facilitate Hospice Access
New study points the way to underserved populations. If you don’t see a lot of [...]
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