Proposal aims to eliminate requirements related to aides, medication management, and facility staff training. While any lightening of hospices’ regulatory load is good news, Medicare’s latest plan to cut red tape … Continue Reading →
Change would save HHAs $55 million per year, CMS estimates. A new Home Health Condition of Participation requirement may get cut, thanks to the Trump administration’s efforts to reduce regulatory burden for providers. … Continue Reading →
Patients over Paperwork initiative results in some small — very small — proposed changes. A dab of regulatory relief is better than none at all — or is it? On … Continue Reading →
Don’t ignore it just because it’s in the hospital rule. Stay alert to a new cost reporting mandate included in the 2019 hospital inpatient payment rule, if you belong to … Continue Reading →
Medicare will no longer run new public display of measures through rulemaking. When it comes to approving new quality measures for inclusion on Hospice Compare, Medicare officials are asking hospices … Continue Reading →
Aides’ med administration, verbal order clarifications welcome. While there is a lot to be worried about in the newly released final Interpretive Guidelines for the Home Health Conditions of Participation, … Continue Reading →
Medicare tweaked testing IGs — but not enough. The final Interpretive Guidelines for the Home Health Conditions of Participation contain a little good news and a lot of bad news … Continue Reading →
The arrival of September may also mean the arrival of your hospice cap repayment notice. Some hospices may have already received a liability statement, but “typically” Medicare Administrative Contractors will begin … Continue Reading →
Do you know the difference between your charge error rate and your claim error rate? Whether you want to avoid Targeted Probe & Educate review or get off TPE once … Continue Reading →
One MAC releases new stats about the medical review program. As Targeted Probe & Educate rolls on, home health agencies are increasingly getting flattened by the new medical review program. … Continue Reading →
