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 →
New GG items should top your priority list. If you think the changes coming to OASIS in January are relatively minor because they involve lots of dropped items and only … Continue Reading →
Remember, you won’t get any more GEMs. Question: I often find myself coding ICD-9 in my head and then using a tool to “translate” to ICD-10, just because I’ve used ICD-9 … Continue Reading →
Improving your billing rate in the middle of a Targeted Probe & Educate round could save you. Seeing the error of your billing ways — and changing them immediately — … 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 →
Key: Help show that aide services will ‘reduce avoidable emergency and healthcare utilization.’ Exactly how much a new broadening of the Medicare Advantage benefit rules will affect home care providers … Continue Reading →
09 Comment early and often. If you think Medicare needs to change some things about the newly unveiled OASIS-D tool that takes effect Jan. 1, don’t wait until the last … Continue Reading →
Some newly announced changes for home health agency cost reports may alter how you submit them. Transmittal 18, issued by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services last month, updates Chapter 32, Home … Continue Reading →
Hospital-based agencies should review their processes, attorneys advise. A patient steering lawsuit filed by a freestanding home health agency against a hospital in Indiana will move forward, possibly paving the … Continue Reading →
Survey fees among resource-draining proposals. While most observers agree the Trump administration’s budget proposal is DOA as an entire document, politicians looking for ways to raise funds for their initiatives are likely … Continue Reading →
