One Massachusetts home health agency audited by the OIG isn’t taking the watchdog agency’s results lying down. The HHS Office of Inspector General audited 2011 and 2012 claims from Home Health VNA in Lawrence and claimed that the results showed [...]
Learning the ins and outs of hospitals' post-acute care transfer policy may help you save your referrals.For the affected diagnosis-related groups, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services divides the total payment for the DRG by the mean length of [...]
Multi-million dollar awards will help use IT systems to improve safety and quality of health care.Your office could be on the receiving end of new health information technology if several national projects prove successful. The Department of Health and Human Services [...]
Medicare not only cut relative value unit (RVU) reimbursement for 2003 by 4.4 percent in the Physician Fee Schedule but also reduced the number of RVUs granted to numerous codes. The double reduction will force pediatricians to economize and consider [...]
