MedPAC thinks a cap reduction is better. The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission seems determined to persuade Congress to cut hospice payment rates, one way or another. In past years, MedPAC has recommended hospice rate freezes and even cuts. But this [...]
Influential advisory body wants Congress to cut hospice pay one way or another. If MedPAC gets its way, lawmakers will require Medicare to reduce the hospice aggregate cap amount by 20 percent and to freeze hospice payment rates for 2021. [...]
Therapy episodes would get reimbursed less. If your claims are dominated by episodes with high therapy, no recent hospital stays, or patients with behavioral health conditions such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder or drug addiction, Medicare’s draft for HH PPS payment [...]
CMS rejects home health agencies’ suggestions for change. The 2017 Home Health Prospective Payment System rule released on Halloween holds more tricks than treats for home health agencies. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services finalized July’s proposed rule mostly [...]
The 1.4-percent cut means you’ll have to make do with less. Experts fear that many home health agencies (HHAs) might have to shut down, thereby significantly reducing access to home-based healthcare for many patients who need it, thanks to the [...]
At least the cut is improved from proposal. Prepare to do more with less for yet another year. The bad news: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued its 2016 Home Health Prospective Payment System final rule Oct. 29, [...]
Know the facts and break the fall that “doctor shopping” has wrought How compliant are you in monitoring your patients’ opioid use? Not keeping tabs on this could put you in line for some unwelcome scrutiny. A statistical brief from [...]
CERT results reveal $34.3 billion in improper Medicare payments -- $1.1 billion of which was underpaid.If your practice's collections rate was off by 10.5 percent, you'd be in big trouble, right? Well, that's the 2010 Medicare Fee-for-Service improper payment rate, and [...]
CERT results reveal $34.3 billion in improper Medicare payments -- $1.1 billion of which was underpaid.If your practice's collections rate was off by 10.5 percent, you'd be in big trouble, right? Well, that's the 2010 Medicare Fee-for-Service improper payment rate, and [...]
CERT results reveal $34.3 billion in improper Medicare payments -- $1.1 billion of which was underpaid.If your practice's collections rate was off by 10.5 percent, you'd be in big trouble, right? Well, that's the 2010 Medicare Fee-for-Service improper payment rate, and [...]
