Courts aren’t afraid to levy big CMPs for ‘willful violations.’ A Virginia home care agency is learning the hard way that it can’t skirt overtime laws. The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia has directed 1st Adult [...]
Be sure to pay attention to ICD-10 guidelines and the reason for the visit. Chronic pain is a complex medical condition characterized by persistent, long-lasting pain that is often resistant to conventional treatments. Paying close attention to the provider’s documentation [...]
Overtime rulings in 3 home health cases lead to agencies paying millions in back wages. Now’s the time to make sure you are operating on the right side of labor laws when it comes to paying your workers overtime. On [...]
One ophthalmologist in our sampling would lose $39,000 a year under the new proposal. Although eye care practices have the option of reporting either ophthalmological services codes or E/M codes for their patient encounters, many ophthalmologists and optometrists bill the [...]
Privacy controls are tough on a good day; find out what you can do in a disaster. As the United States continues to reel from the after effects of Hurricanes ‘ Harvey and Irma, many healthcare teams need guidance to [...]
Rebasing cuts could be in your future. You’ll have more quality and other regulatory requirements in Fiscal Year 2018, but less additional money to tackle them, if the 2018 proposed rule for hospice payment is finalized as-is. The Centers for [...]
Hospices overpaid for RHC, cost report analysis indicates. A year of a reduced payment update isn’t great, but something much worse could be coming down the pike for hospices — actual cuts based on their reported costs. Reminder: The Centers [...]
Here’s what should be your primary diagnosis — and it isn’t gout. When a patient hobbles into your podiatrist’s office, you might wonder whether the primary diagnosis should be difficulty in walking, pain in the ankle, stiffness of the joints [...]
Florida ranks highest in post-admission care transitions. Add one more indicator to your hospice quality list. Care transitions after hospice admission vary significantly among geographic areas, notes a new study in the Feb. 17 Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. [...]
Add one more indicator to your hospice quality list. Care transitions after hospice admission vary significantly among geographic areas, notes a new study in the Feb. 17 Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. Of 311,090 Medicare hospice patients who died [...]
