A new executive order signed by President Trump could bring you some regulatory relief — or it could make your life harder by encouraging Medicare Advantage utilization and cutting fee for service rates. Broad language included in the “Executive Order [...]
Waiting on physician documentation will exacerbate cash flow crunch. If Medicare moves forward with its plans to eliminate Requests for Anticipated Payment, it will all but secure the hardship and possible closure of agencies lacking a cash flow safety net. [...]
How much difference will these changes really make? Hospices may be in for a treat if Medicare proposals to reduce regulatory burden are finalized — but the help is more fun-sized than king-sized. Last month, the Centers for Medicare & [...]
LHC Group Inc. and Brentwood, Tenn. based LifePoint Health have finalized the formation of a joint venture that will operate LifePoint’s home health agencies and hospices, as well as running select LHC Group agencies located near LifePoint hospitals, LHC says [...]
LHC Group Inc. and Brentwood, Tenn. based LifePoint Health have finalized the formation of a joint venture that will operate LifePoint’s home health agencies and hospices, as well as running select LHC Group agencies located near LifePoint hospitals, LHC says [...]
The terms are not interchangeable. If a patient sees your otolaryngologist because of enlarged lymph nodes in her neck, she might be diagnosed with lymphadenopathy or lymphadenitis. The two terms represent different conditions, however, so be sure to choose the [...]
Plus: Another breach prompts you to get a BA’s signature before providing access to PHI. If the latest big breach case tells you anything, you should see that breaches are increasingly leading to compliance investigations — and that means more [...]
Influential advisory body to Congress points to historic differences. Wondering why MedPAC seems to have it in for home health agencies year after year, recommending reimbursement reductions over and over? Take a look at the 2013 statistics the Medicare Payment [...]
Remember to distinguish localized vs generalized. If you come across notes from your oncologist about “lymphadenopathy,” it means the patient has an abnormal enlargement of lymph nodes. ICD-9-CM code: Diagnosis coding under ICD-9-CM points you to 785.6 (Enlargement of lymph [...]
CMS puts long LOS, high live discharge rates under its microscope. Medicare is analyzing the hospice data you are now submitting via claims and cost reports, and officials aren’t liking everything they see. At the National Association for Home Care [...]
