Home Health Line
03/19/2012

Prepare for longer wait times for reimbursement starting this fall and a possible 2% reduction in your market basket update next year because of new checks on OASIS submissions.

03/19/2012

Take steps now to improve responses to the individual questions that will drag down your patient-satisfaction measures on Home Health Compare.

03/19/2012

For the VNA of South Central Connecticut, improving patient satisfaction scores has been all about keeping up a constant stream of communication with staff about the survey.

03/19/2012

The recent indictment of the Dallas physician who allegedly masterminded some $374 million in Medicare and Medicaid fraud has caused serious aftershocks in the local home health market.

03/19/2012

Make sure your nurses are communicating with physicians on a regular basis, as well as properly documenting that communication, when you bill for skilled nursing code G0163 (observation and assessment).

03/19/2012

Expect stepped-up scrutiny of your claims by payment and fraud contractors following a new report by the HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG).

03/19/2012

CMS has made changes to improve user-friendliness of the provider enrollment, chain and ownership system (PECOS).

03/12/2012

It pays to challenge the findings of a zone program integrity contractor (ZPIC) audit: Many providers have been able to reclaim the vast majority of challenged reimbursement at the first, second and third levels of appeal.

03/12/2012

Don’t let scoring mistakes on Home Health Compare slip by you – make sure you’re prepared to assess and understand your publicly reported patient satisfaction measures before they appear on the website in April.

03/12/2012

Make sure you have the most complete data possible on patient satisfaction by taking steps to improve your response rates on the Home Health Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HH-CAHPS) survey.

Login

User Name:
Password: