Home Health Line
12/19/2011

Zone Program Integrity Contractors (ZPICs) and other auditors have been ramping up hospice scrutiny in recent months, making it crucial to devise a plan now to prevent giving back earned

12/19/2011

If you think you can’t train your staff on compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) because you don’t have the funds, think again. It doesn’t have

12/19/2011

Agencies with certain face-to-face encounter denials would get paid for those claims under new instructions CMS published Dec. 8, but those payments could take as long as four months to

12/12/2011
Despite its announcement of an enforcement delay for the 5010 claim submission standard, CMS is standing firm on its ICD-10 implementation date of Oct. 1, 2013, the federal Medicare agency
12/12/2011

Drop-shipping your supplies directly to patients’ homes could save you money and staff time, but consider factors such as shipping distances and costs before you take the plunge.

12/12/2011
Expect to see a lot more focus on your compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)’s privacy and security rules. The Department of Health and Human Services’
12/12/2011
When patients miss required face-to-face encounters, you have to issue them a Home Health Advance Beneficiary Notice (HHABN), but you can’t hold patients liable for the cost of care.
12/12/2011

Home health agencies could find that working with quality improvement organizations (QIOs) is very different in future years.

12/12/2011

Clarification: The Dec. 5 HHL article “Don’t overlook these common cost-savers in 2012” advised you that you can save money by including gasoline reimbursement in clinician salaries. In fact, the

12/05/2011
CMS will hold off on enforcing the new electronic claims transaction standard until March 31, 2012, giving some breathing space to agencies who won’t be ready by the Jan. 1

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