F2F reform is what’s really needed, expert urges. After years of punishing claims denials based on a physician requirement to furnish an estimate of service length for a recert, Medicare … Continue Reading →
Data helps pinpoint winners, losers under new payment system. Aside from budget neutrality, the PDGM payment reform model Medicare has proposed for 2020 may look basically the same as last … Continue Reading →
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 →
Plus: Rural add-on, QRP education, more. Perhaps due in part to the appearance of OASIS-D on the horizon, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services plans to resume its quarterly issuance of … Continue Reading →
IT CoPs for post-acute providers on agenda. Before you find yourself slapped with a set of regulatory mandates regarding electronic health records, you should take your chance to share your … Continue Reading →
New option applies to all providers’ reports. To take advantage of Medicare’s new electronic signature capability, you’ll need to learn to navigate its new cost report filing avenue — the … Continue Reading →
New quality measure aims to ID discharges followed by hospitalization or death. Concerns about hospices discharging patients alive continue, and a newly proposed quality measure takes aim at the sore … Continue Reading →
IMPACT Act-sparked additions are headed your way soon. Focus your attention on the OASIS changes the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has in store for 2019. CMS will add three GG … Continue Reading →
Will a decades-long prohibition on physician referrals and ownership get the ax? Home care and other medical care providers have lived with Stark Law restrictions since the 1990s, but don’t … Continue Reading →
