Home Health Line
03/12/2012

New details on the ICD-10 delay were scarce at the ICD-9-CM Coordination and Maintenance Committee Meeting in Baltimore on March 5. 

03/12/2012

Don’t let your agency fall victim to an underestimation of your audit risk. With Medicare auditors ramping up their scrutiny of home health, you need to be ready to justify every service your agency provides.

03/12/2012

Ensure your agency takes proper precautions to keep clinicians safe from attack while working in the field. 

03/12/2012

CMS has been working on implementing less severe punishments for agencies with state survey deficiencies that don’t warrant termination from the Medicare program – since 1987.

03/12/2012

CMS has issued a revised Notice of Medicare Non-Coverage.

Odyssey HealthCare will pay $25 million to settle three False Claims Act suits.
03/05/2012

Prepare for CMS to step up its claim denials and payment reductions for missing OASIS data following a new report from the HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG).

03/05/2012

The government has moved on an unprecedented scale against an alleged home health fraud conspiracy involving at least 81 Dallas-area agencies and a physician whose record-size practice made referrals that cost Medicare more than $350 million and Medicaid more than $24 million in improper payments. 

03/05/2012

Do you want a tool that will help you track whether physicians have met the face-to-face encounter rule requirements for patients they refer? 

03/05/2012

A new proposed rule CMS issued earlier this month would require providers to return overpayments they’ve identified within 60 days, dramatically raising your risk of liability under the False Claims Act.

03/05/2012

Expect to see your Home Health Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HH-CAHPS) scores displayed publicly on Home Health Compare starting in mid-April.

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