Keep close tabs on your employee count if you are anywhere close to the reporting threshold. Regardless of your size, act now to ensure you not only comply with OSHA’s latest reporting change, but that your existing recordkeeping is secure [...]
Large providers narrowly miss out on regulatory relief. Now that 2024 has arrived, make sure you’re complying with newly revamped injury and illness reporting requirements from the feds. Background: Most industries with more than 10 employees (including home health and [...]
From regulatory overreach to distortion of outcomes data, the negative consequences are legion. Home health agencies and their representatives spend lots of time in their proposed rule comment letters laying out the many, many reasons that all-payer OASIS is ill [...]
Plus: National chain expands JV with health system. New York-based private equity firm Wellspring Capital Management has acquired Caring Brands International Inc., the parent of Interim HealthCare and two other international franchise companies, from PE firm Levine Leichtman Capital Partners [...]
A spin-off or sale of Encompass Health Corp.’s home health and hospice business is looking ever-more sure. “Our Board of Directors believes a full or partial separation of the home health and hospice business will enhance the long -term success [...]
Once again, CMS listed J7613 as the most-billed code. Although you may think E/M services are the bread and butter of pulmonology coding — and of codes billed to Medicare in general — the reality is that HCPCS Level II [...]
If you think a slowdown in federal compliance oversight is in store under the pandemic, think again. At press time, the HHS Office of Inspector General had added 28 new items to its Work Plan for May. The additions run [...]
ICD-9 had a lot of options, but ICD-10 has even more. If your physician treats a patient diagnosed with diabetic neuropathy, be prepared to have numerous ICD-10 code choices for your claim. Also be prepared to look for documentation regarding [...]
ICD-9 had a lot of options, but ICD-10 has even more. If your physician treats a patient diagnosed with diabetic neuropathy, be prepared to have numerous ICD-10 code choices for your claim. Also be prepared to look for documentation regarding [...]
Check your local allowed primary diagnostic codes to ensure timely reimbursement. You know that Medicare pays for routine foot care for diabetic patients suffering from peripheral neuropathy with loss of protective sensation (LOPS), albeit with riders, but you may still [...]
