• 1 Fraud & Abuse: Take These 6 Steps To Prepare For ZPIC Audits

• 2 Audits: Use These 7 Tips To Survive A ZPIC Audit

• 3 Policy: MedPAC Sets Sights On Home Care -- Again

• 4 Diagnosis Coding: Use This Checklist To Help You Implement ICD-9 Changes

• 5 Competitive Bidding: Bidding Hearing Gives Suppliers Little Hope Of Delay

• 6 Industry Notes: New Legislation Takes Aim At Medicare Fraud

• 7 Medicare Issues PECOS Enrollment Instructions For Ordering Docs.

• 8 Guard Against Whistleblowers.

• 9 Schedule Around PECOS 'Dark Days'

• 10 Home Care Cuts Hurt Patients, Newspaper Says

• 11 OIG Blasts Suppliers' KX Modifier Claims

• 12 Keep Dates Straight Or Risk RAP Rejections

• 13 Payment Glitch Holds Up Palmetto Providers' Pay

• 14 Stable Patients Equal Hospice Denials, Contractor Says