Home Health & Hospice Week

If you don't document your steps, you could kiss your payment goodbye. Ask any agency which billing scenario it dreads the most and you'll likely get the same answer: patients who transfer from one agency to another during their episodes. Bad: Whether you receive a patient from another agency or your patient transfers out, you could be on the losing end of payment. That's because the initial agency could claim it provided services for the full episode even if the patient transferred out before the 60-day period expired. Similarly, the receiving agency could provide services at the tail end of that episode but reap full payment simply because you can't prove otherwise. Better: You can easily smooth out any wrinkles in your patient transfers and ensure you reap your rightful reimbursement for the services you provided. Here's how: Initial Agencies: Speak Up About Transfer Problems If an agency takes on [...]