HIPAA: Cover These HIPAA Basics Or Risk Hefty Penalties
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 →
Hospice: Don’t Let Physician Assistant Hospice Change Confuse You
CMS is clear on PAs’ dos and don’ts under the new regs. You’ll still need to get a physician to certify a patient’s terminal illness and perform the face-to-face encounter, … Continue Reading →
Health Information: Medicare Gears Up For EHealth Info Exchange Requirements
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 →
Quality: Quality Takes Center Stage In Proposed Hospice Rule
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 →
Conditions of Participation: Don’t Let Simple Address Mistakes Torpedo Your Survey
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 →
Regulations: Medicare Rolls Out Electronic Signatures For Cost Reports
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 →
Finance: Report Costs For These Lines, Or Else
New Level 1 edits make these cost report lines mandatory. Without costs recorded on these lines in Worksheet A of the hospice cost report, Medicare won’t accept your report. Line … Continue Reading →
Hospice: Prepare To Get More Detailed In Your Hospice Cost Report
Note this big change to reporting drug costs. Newly released hospice cost report revisions may mean more work for you, but should result in more accurate data that will be … Continue Reading →
Compliance: Know Your Aide Competency Requirements
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 →
Conditions of Participation: CoP Changes To Competency Evals For Aides Put HHAs At Survey Risk
Are your patients willing to be bathing guinea pigs? More than four months into implementation of the drastically revised Home Health Conditions of Participation, home health agencies continue to struggle … Continue Reading →