Plus: Crackdown on state personal care services fraudsters continues A home health agency owner is one of the fraudsters swept up in the feds’ recent “COVID-19 Health Care Fraud Takedown.” In May, the HHS Office of Inspector General and law [...]
Keep tabs on how the HHS Office of Inspector General is dealing with COVID-19 issues on its new portal at https://oig.hhs.gov/coronavirus.The webpage has “up to date information about our operations, contact information, and COVID-related work,” the OIG says. For example: [...]
Don’t let errors in filling out the OASIS item on diagnosis codes cost you money. As of Jan. 1, under the 2013 Home Health Prospective Payment System, M1024 — Payment diagnoses is reserved for reporting acute fracture codes only. Make [...]
Home health agencies and hospices getting used to their new Medicare contractor are also getting used to its new name. CIGNA Government Services changed its name to CGS Administrators after it was bought by Palmetto GBA parent Blue Cross Blue [...]
Errata sheet corrects CMS's wrongs. Don't let OASIS C changes sneak in under your radar. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has issued an "errata" sheet for the OASIS User's Manual, reported CMS's Robin Dowell in a recent Open [...]
Your home health agency's patient satisfaction data will be posted on the Internet early in 2011-- what will it say about you? Find out why you should participate in the CAHPS patient satisfaction survey program, as well as how to [...]
And make sure you get all the payment you've earned. The last thing you need is to lose out on reimbursement because you didn't realize a patient is receiving care from another agency. Regional home health intermediary Palmetto GBA offers [...]
Resource center staff to provide claims assistance The U.S. Department of Labor is taking steps to assist nuclear weapons industry workers with medical bill payments and travel expense reimbursements, the agency announced on Feb. 12. To simplify the medical benefits [...]
Final district court decision yet to come.A preliminary court decision favorable to a home health agency accused of kickback violations may be too little, too late.Magistrate Judge James D. Kirk sides with Monroe, LA-based Aging Care Home Health Inc. in [...]
Organ or tissue replaced by transplant; kidney) and 996.81 (Complications of transplanted organ; kidney) as secondary diagnoses Ferragamo says. Procedure coding: The proper CPT codes to report for the procedures depend on what exactly the urologist is doing with the [...]
