Home Health Line
06/16/2008
Stop nagging clinicians for not getting their paperwork in on time and start rewarding them with a bonus for accurate OASIS and timely paperwork completion and you could improve your
06/16/2008
CMS sends letters to providers to update NPPES data. Health care providers could risk deactivation of their National Provider Identifier (NPI) if they do not have updated information in the
06/09/2008
CMS has issued new guidance about how your clinicians should answer M0520 when the physician orders catheter removal during the start-of-care visit – and failing to comply could cost your agency
06/09/2008
Be sure your RHHI’s billing system contains a matching request for anticipated payment (RAP) before you submit a final claim or you could risk errors and delayed payments.
06/09/2008
When quality review staff notices OASIS inaccuracies, they need to contact the clinician who originally completed the OASIS, ask whether the original answers are correct and if not get verbal consent to make changes.
06/09/2008
CMS’s program safeguard process is facing a federal court challenge by a high-therapy Michigan HHA after safeguard contractor TrustSolutions conducted 212 prepayment reviews of the agency’s claims and disallowed more
06/09/2008
As part of the much-anticipated final Hospice Conditions of Participation, published Thursday, CMS will require hospices to monitor andimprove the quality of their services and operations, by addressing areas such
06/02/2008
A 14-page, single-space critique of Medicare Advantage program shortcomings by the Democratic staff of the House Energy and Commerce Committee is yet another reason to believe that Medicare's generous payments
06/02/2008
One agency’s decade-old policy lets its nurses make and modify the rules for determining vacation time, which has led to low turnover and simple oversight.
06/02/2008
When your agency adopts point-of-care laptops, give your clinicians their computers a couple of weeks before you roll them out agency-wide and instruct them to play solitaire to familiarize themselves

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