• 1 Hospice: Include This Vital Element In Your Prior Authorization Documentation For Hospice Patients' Unrelated Drugs

• 2 Hospice: Reach Out To Part D Drug Plans At Admission To Avoid Billing Confusion

• 3 Patient Outcomes: Improve Your Patients' Outcomes By Facilitating Better Pain Management

• 4 Tool: Make Screening For Pain As Easy As ABCDE

• 5 Human Resources: Avoid Overlapping Tasks Among Team Members

• 6 Industry Notes: Beneficiaries Indicted In Latest Home Care Fraud Ring

• 7 Therapy Cap Exceptions Extended One Year

• 8 New Doc NPI Edits Coming

• 9 Labs' HIPAA Exemptions Nixed In Recent Rule

• 10 ICD-10 Edits Cause Claims Problems Already

• 11 MAC Gives Cancel Pointers

• 12 LHC Buys More Agencies

• 13 Fraud & Abuse: OIG Announces $2 Million Amedisys Hospice Settlement

• 14 Reader Question: How Often Do You Really Need To Perform A HIPAA Risk Assessment?