Don’t stop at base rate when calculating rule’s impact on your pay next year. The 2.2 percent rate cut is the reimbursement news catching most home health agencies’ eyes first, but there are a number of other important payment-related provisions [...]
Warning: Drastic reimbursement cut could be waiting in the wings for HHAs. Medicare is proposing a rate increase for 2022 that would be slightly lower than this year’s, but home health agencies should write that figure in pencil rather than [...]
Aide supervision, drug coverage get mentions. The HHS Office of Inspector General doesn’t include specific hospice fraud cases in its latest Semiannual Report To Congress, but that doesn’t mean hospice gets a pass. The OIG reviews its November 2019 report, [...]
HHA owner fugitive is apprehended at the border. Home health may not get mentioned in the new HHS Office of Inspector General Semiannual Report as much as in previous editions, but what the report lacks in quantity is made up [...]
Watch out: Tougher enforcement is ahead. With so much going on for hospices, it’s easy to let aide supervision slip down on your priority list. Now’s the time to make sure it ranks at the top. Reminder: The HHS Office [...]
Watch out: Tougher enforcement is ahead. The old adage “if it’s not documented, it’s not done” is once again proven in yet another government report criticizing Medicare oversight of hospices via surveys. Reminder: The HHS Office of Inspector General already [...]
Medicare is offering free OASIS-D training. Here are some places you can turn for information and expert advice on the dramatically revamped OASIS-D assessment tool and guidelines: Back issues of Eli’s Home Care Week. Use the information, expert analysis, and [...]
NOE filing is at risk, MAC warns. Nearly half of home health and hospice FISS DDE users have not yet recertified their user access, which will spell bad reimbursement news after the Sept. 30 deadline. “Failure to recertify by September [...]
GIP stays of more than a week will draw reviewers’ attention. More and more whistleblower complaints filed against hospices are focusing on General Inpatient care abuse, and the feds are giving this area heavy focus. You’d better make sure your [...]
Question: If I find that a common ICD-9 code that I use doesn’t have a direct crosswalk to ICD-10, will I be able to use “other” or “other specified” codes in ICD-10? Arkansas Subscriber Answer: You will see that not all codes [...]
