Home Health Line
06/04/2012

Recovery audit contractor (RAC) Connolly has announced it will audit home health episodes where the request for anticipated payment (RAP) has no associated final claim in the system.

06/04/2012

CMS has issued new accrediting standards for HME suppliers that provide negative wound pressure therapy (NWPT) equipment to Medicare beneficiaries. 

06/04/2012

Give this tool to your referring physicians to help them track time spent on care plan oversight (CPO). 

05/21/2012

Make sure your clinicians correctly complete functional items on the OASIS — mistakes can be a red flag for auditors and cost you earned reimbursement.

05/21/2012

The certifying physician must take ownership of face-to-face encounter documentation, even when a different physician completed it, CMS clarifies in new Q&As published May 4.

05/21/2012

Below, HHLhas condensed some of the key guidance in the new CMS face-to-face encounter Q&As, published May 4.

05/21/2012

Patient satisfaction surveys aren’t only for your Medicare patients. Use them for non-Medicare patients as well to make sure you’re capturing every patient’s level of satisfaction and reaping the referral benefits.

05/21/2012

Be careful when you turn down prospective employees based on a criminal record. New government guidance makes it clear that you could be opening your agency to a discrimination suit.

05/21/2012

CMS is giving you new advice on how to submit a successful reconsideration request if you face a 2% reduction to your payments in the following year.

05/21/2012

New data from OCS HomeCare in Seattle show what percentage of 2011 episodes garnered case-mix points for agencies on the M1800 items.

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