DOL is onto agencies’ tricks such as misclassifying employees and neglecting to combine hours between locations. Failing to pay overtime and minimum wage has socked two Texas home care agencies with a hefty $1 million bill. Alegre Home Health Care [...]
PPH, Discharge Function measure changes are too much, too soon. The Medicare home health proposed payment rule for 2024 doesn’t stop at calling for a Value-Based Purchasing baseline year change; it also floats a major swap of the elements used [...]
Industry orgs argue it’s not enough. Pandemic fallout combined with rampant inflation have put undue financial constraints on many healthcare providers. In a rare move, an influential advisory board is asking Congress to increase physician payment rates by connecting them [...]
Understand DED coding nuances to safeguard your practice’s reimbursement. Nearly half of all U.S. adults experience signs and symptoms of dry eye disease (DED), and roughly a third of patients in eye care clinics present with complaints related to dry [...]
SPADE, Transfer of Health items set to debut. Check out the list of items slated to be added or dropped in the forthcoming OASIS-E version. IMPACT Act Standardized Assessment Patient Data Elements (SPADE) items added: Cognitive Function C0100 Should Brief [...]
Expect the holiday crunch to crank up to ‘11’ this year, with OASIS-E and VBP debuting simultaneously Jan. 1. New OASIS-E information released by Medicare underscores how much extra work will be dumped on home health agencies’ plates in about [...]
Medicare Part B providers will have lots of new options in their coding wheelhouse starting on Oct. 1, 2018, according to the recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) release of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 ICD-10-CM diagnosis codes. [...]
Medicare providers will have lots of new options in their coding wheelhouse starting on Oct. 1, 2018, according to the recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) release of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 ICD-10-CM diagnosis codes. “These 2019 [...]
A cyber attack exposes millions of consumers credit data. On September 7, 2017, Equifax was compromised with a breach that impacted over 143 million individuals. The cyber attack resulted from “website vulnerability,” the company said in a release on its [...]
Network monitoring helps prevent “inside jobs.” Cyber hacking is on the rise, impacting healthcare in ways never imagined. But most violations are the work of practice insiders not the nameless hacker. Safeguard yourself from internal threats with these HIPAA basics. [...]
