Home Health & Hospice Week
With only two months to go before
With only two months to go before durable medical equipment competitive bidding goes live in nine areas, CMS is cranking up its issuance of bidding-related education materials. CMS's Medicare Learning Network now offers bidding fact sheets for traveling beneficiaries, physicians, and suppliers who are not contract suppliers. The fact sheets are online at www.cms.gov/DMEPOSCompetitiveBid/04_Educational_Resources.asp -- scroll down to the "Downloads" section. Meanwhile: Suppliers are incensed that CMS has not yet announced the contract suppliers. Non-winning suppliers have just a matter of days to give patients notice on whether they continue furnishing bid items under a grandfathering exception, notes the National Association of Independent Medical Equipment Suppliers. CMS requires 30 business days' notice to beneficiaries, notes NAIMES'Wayne Stanfield.
Home Health & Hospice Week
- Audits:
Homebound Audits Put HHAs' Reimbursement At Risk
Are you committing one of these 8 frequent homebound sins? If your patient records fail [...] - Know Your Facts:
Medicare Definition Of Homebound
The Medicare Benefit Policy Manual, Chapter 7 states that "the condition of [homebound] patients should [...] - Hospice:
Intermediary Targets Nursing Home Hospice Claims
Don't miss a vital hospice certification step for long-stay beneficiaries. Authorities are pretty concerned about [...] - Reimbursement:
Impending Physician Pay Cut Could Threaten Home Care Dollars
Medicare will cut doc payment rates by 23% in one month. Home care providers may [...] - Human Resources:
Focused Feedback Gets Results
Feedback for employees serves its true purpose only when it's proper and timely. What would [...] - Industry Notes:
Intermediaries Won't Field ZPIC Questions
They will take your ZPIC appeals, though. The lines may get blurry when it comes [...] - If you've been letting your OASIS data
If you've been letting your OASIS data submission slide, now's the time to prioritize it. [...] - If it seems like your referring physicians
If it seems like your referring physicians are ignorant of the fraud and abuse rules [...] - With only two months to go before
With only two months to go before durable medical equipment competitive bidding goes live in [...] - The Fiscal Intermediary Shared System
contractor has added to the list of diagnosis codes that are causing delays for some [...] - You soon may have access to training
You soon may have access to training materials that will help your visiting staff stay [...] - Investigations into Amedisys Inc.'s therapy
Investigations into Amedisys Inc.'s therapy provision by The Wall Street Journal, U.S. Senate, Securities and [...] - Jackson, Mich.-based Great Lakes
Jackson, Mich.-based Great Lakes Home Health has purchased Bingham Farmsbased In-House Hospice &Palliative Care with [...] - A home health agency patient recruiter
A home health agency patient recruiter in Houston has pled guilty in a $5.2 million [...]
