Watch out for this common supervisory mistake when furnishing staff criticism. Your employees look to you for constructive ways to improve their performance. Avoid the temptation to spout what management … Continue Reading →
Warning: Proper disposal of Protected Health Information is an OCR hot spot. Ensuring the safety of your patients’ protected health information on your computers, networks, and mobile devices is important. … Continue Reading →
Therapy visit medical necessity comes in second. Know what denials your claims may be most vulnerable to by perusing the top five denial reasons under the first six months of … Continue Reading →
Denial rates over 25% will keep you on TPE review at this MAC. The results from the first wave of Targeted Probe & Educate are rolling in, and they point … Continue Reading →
What you don’t know may hurt you. Failing to keep up to date on important cybersecurity issues can leave you wide open for a HIPAA breach. Keeping in sync with … Continue Reading →
Just keep waiting on those CoP Interpretive Guidelines. Home health agency survey citations are racking up, and yet the Interpretive Guidelines for surveyors regarding the new Home Health Conditions of … Continue Reading →
Learn a valuable lesson from this $2.3 million HIPAA settlement. If you skimp on risk management or other HIPAA core duties, you may have to pay big when a breach … Continue Reading →
Check out new time frames for Hospice Item Set data review. You’d better pay close attention to your Hospice Quality Reporting Program-related duties in 2019, because that’s something the feds … Continue Reading →
Learn from one agency’s citation under the new CoPs. The new Home Health Conditions of Participation that took effect in January are complex and overwhelming, but there’s one new requirement … Continue Reading →
Observation is required for these subject areas. Under §484.80 Condition of participation: Home health aide services, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services specifies in (c) Standard: Competency evaluation that “an individual … Continue Reading →
