Home Health Line
07/04/2011
by: Thelma Bowen

Question: A patient is admitted to the hospital during a home health episode. The patient is discharged from home health, but unexpectedly returns after the hospital stay. Does this patient

07/04/2011

A Zone Program Integrity Contractor (ZPIC) soon could be knocking on your door for a pre-payment review if a new real-time claim analysis tool flags one of your claims as

07/04/2011

Do home health agencies need an exemption from the employee health coverage requirements of health care reform?

07/04/2011

Correction: In the June 27 issue of HHL, Brenda Klütz should have been identified as the former deputy director of the licensing and certification program at California’s Department of Health

07/04/2011
Three months into the enforcement of the face-to-face physician encounter requirement, a few agencies have developed strategies for achieving near-perfect compliance. But even for those agencies, an impact on referrals
06/27/2011

Problems arising from new therapy reassessment requirements are on the verge of spreading to your billing department as you enter the first billing cycle since the regulations went into effect

06/27/2011

Expect the stronger focus on quality of care CMS has integrated into its revised state survey protocols to extend to your plan of correction after the survey.

06/27/2011

Don’t expect an exception for agencies that miss the 30-day therapy assessment requirement due to circumstances out of their control, CMS tells HHL in a list of responses to therapy

06/27/2011

A new study by consulting firm Avalere Health provides a glimpse of the impact of a home health copay on Medicare beneficiaries.

06/27/2011

CMS plans to use predictive modeling technology to catch Medicare fraudsters starting July 1. Predictive modeling is the technology used by credit card companies to identify payments outside the norm.

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