Home Health Line
06/22/2009
Recent indications from CMS suggest that therapy use will be a main focus when Recovery Audit Contractors start reviewing home health claims later this summer.
06/15/2009
Cuts in state Medicaid budgets to meet recession-caused deficits are threatening significant revenue losses for many agencies that provide home support services to the elderly.
06/15/2009
Agencies that fail to repay overpayments could be at risk for costly penalties because of recent changes in the False Claims Act.
06/15/2009
Physicians have a new incentive to claim CPO payments – and to refer to HHAs that help them.
06/15/2009
Contact your software vendor “right away” to ask whether it includes privacy regulation updates in its contract.
06/15/2009
The final ICD-9-CM FY2010 code list CMS released contains some surprises, including a specification on a pressure ulcer code, the first-ever swine flu codes and traumatic brain injury codes.
06/15/2009
Clarification: The ABN tool that ran in the May 25 issue was based on one created by Sue Kruser when she worked for Sarasota Memorial Home Care.Quality improvement organizations merge.
06/15/2009
Some agencies are developing more sophisticated methods for weighting visits to help clinicians reach their productivity standards.
06/08/2009
Your home health liability insurer generally isn’t required to defend you against charges of fraud under the False Claims Act, a recent federal appeals court decision confirms.
06/08/2009
Some agencies that bill to National Government Services as their regional home health intermediary are seeing an influx of additional documentation requests (ADRs) that have tied up thousands of dollars.

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