Plus: See how much Medicare’s behavioural adjustments are stripping from base rate. If you thought your home health agency impact file outlining the Patient Driven Groupings Model’s effects is the full story, think again. Reminder: When the Centers for Medicare [...]
OPPS conversion factor drops, but individual APC payments changes will vary. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) Final Rule on Nov. 30, 2015, effective for dates of service on and [...]
Keep a single diagnosis code with the new system. Polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) is not one of the most common diagnoses your pain management physician will assign, but you need to know about the condition in case you ever have to [...]
Don’t combine the condition with giant cell arteritis. Polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) is not one of the most common diagnoses your pain management physician will assign, but you need to know about the condition in case you ever have to code [...]
Beware delays stemming from IACS-to-EIDM system transition. Don’t forget you have a whole new cap-related duty on your plate this year, and a very short window of time in which to complete it. Reminder: In the 2015 hospice final payment [...]
Line up your IACS access as soon as possible. Don’t forget you have a whole new cap-related duty on your plate this year, and a very short window of time in which to complete it. Reminder: In the 2015 hospice [...]
More than one in 10 hospices exceeds its per patient cap. Wondering why the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is making a big deal out of aggregate cap overpayments when they apply to a minority of hospices? Consider these [...]
More than one in 10 hospices exceeds its per patient cap. Wondering why the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is making a big deal out of aggregate cap overpayments when they apply to a minority of hospices? Consider these [...]
Policymakers want more data before moving ahead with pay reform. The proposed payment increase for hospices in 2015 seems like good news. But that upswing in reimbursement might be offset by sequestration cuts which have not been factored into the [...]
Reminder: If you know your systems are at risk, fix them immediately. It’s just one laptop — but the repercussions of it being stolen reverberated far and wide for one company. When a physical therapy facility had a laptop stolen, [...]
