Budget proposal follows up on State of the Union remarks. The value-based purchasing and oversight provisions in the Biden administration’s newly unveiled budget for 2025 could pack a wallop for home health and hospice agencies, but many other sectoins carry [...]
Expect typical processing time for appeals decisions to exceed 540 days. Due to the overwhelming receipt levels and already huge backlog of Medicare claims appeals, don’t hold your breath when you’re waiting for the HHS Office of Medicare Hearings and [...]
Expect typical processing time for appeals decisions to exceed 540 days. Due to the overwhelming receipt levels and already huge backlog of Medicare claims appeals, don’t hold your breath when you’re waiting for the HHS Office of Medicare Hearings and [...]
Expect typical processing time for appeals decisions to exceed 540 days. Due to the overwhelming receipt levels and already huge backlog of Medicare claims appeals, don’t hold your breath when you’re waiting for the HHS Office of Medicare Hearings and [...]
Expect average processing time for appeals decisions to exceed 540 days. Due to the overwhelming receipt levels and already huge backlog of Medicare claims appeals, don’t hold your breath when you’re waiting for the HHS Office of Medicare Hearings and [...]
In Table 3 of the 2014 Home Health PPS Final Rule, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services lists the deleted codes most used in 2012. The top deleted codes used were: 1. 401.0 (Malignant essential hypertension), 34,207 episodes; 2. [...]
Examine your claims to make sure you’re using these codes correctly. In Table 3 of the 2014 Home Health PPS Final Rule, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services lists the deleted codes most used in 2012. The top deleted [...]
In Table 3 of the final rule, CMS lists the deleted codes most used in 2012. The top deleted codes used were: 1. 401.0 (Malignant essential hypertension), 34,207 episodes; 2. 285.1 (anemia mentioned above), 26,547 episodes; and 3. 578.9 (GI [...]
Codes used in tens of thousands of episodes in 2012 get kicked off the case mix list. CMS has stuck to its guns on eliminating 170 diagnosis codes from the prospective payment system case mix calculation in 2014. This summer, [...]
CPT 2008 releases telephone and online codes -- and rehab providers can bill them It may be a while before rehab care providers spend a lot of their skilled time with patients on the phone or via e-mail, but CPT [...]
