Home Health & Hospice Week
You might want to take a look at a new
You might want to take a look at a new fraud and abuse resource Medicare is handing out to freshly minted physicians. At the request of medical schools, the HHS Office of Inspector General has issued the "Roadmap for New Physicians: Avoiding Medicare and Medicaid Fraud and Abuse." The new tool summarizes the five main federal fraud and abuse laws, and offers tips regarding how doctors can comply with the laws. Those five laws are the False Claims Act, the Anti-Kickback Statute, the Stark Law, the Exclusion Statute, and the Civil Monetary Penalties Law. Tip: The document isn't just for medical students -- if you feel you could use a refresher on any of these fraud and abuse topics, check out the OIG's Roadmap online at http://oig.hhs.gov/fraud/PhysicianEducation.
Home Health & Hospice Week
- Prospective Payment System:
Get Ready For HHAs'Face To Face Encounters To Limit Bene Access
New FFE rule’s deadline is rushing up on agencies quickly. Even though the prospective payment [...] - Certification:
Don't Forget NPPs Can Do Encounters Too
They just can't certify patients for home care. The face to face encounter final rule [...] - Referrals:
Start Training Referring Physicians On FFEs Right Away
Use these 9 tips to get ready for the new requirement by Jan. 1. The [...] - Regulations:
Hospitalist Change Eases FFE Burden On HHAs -- A Little Bit
But watch out for problems with transitioning patients to their primary care physicians. Home health [...] - Medical Review:
Don't Give Physicians FFE Boilerplate Language To Sign
How much of a helping hand is too much? Watch out: The feds say they [...] - Industry Notes:
CERT Report Findings To Bring More Claims Scrutiny
Medicare payment error rate continues to be in the double digits. The payment error rate [...] - Counting therapy visits for Medicare's
Counting therapy visits for Medicare's new therapy reassessment requirement just got complicated again. Based on [...] - Durable medical equipment suppliers
Durable medical equipment suppliers that haven't sent out their grandfathering notice -- whether for or [...] - Add yet another government audit contractor
Add yet another government audit contractor to your list, and this one may have slipped [...] - You'd better get familiar with a new
You'd better get familiar with a new entity at CMS, because it could completely change [...] - Thanks to new timely filing rules
Thanks to new timely filing rules, you don't have long to get in your pre-2010 [...] - Wall Street is taking notice of the big
Wall Street is taking notice of the big cuts coming down the pike for home [...] - HHAs that furnish outpatient therapy
HHAs that furnish outpatient therapy in the home should keep an eye on therapy caps [...] - If you're having trouble billing for
If you're having trouble billing for Fluzone, it's probably not your fault. "Home health providers [...] - You might want to take a look at a new
You might want to take a look at a new fraud and abuse resource Medicare [...]
