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 →
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 →
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 →
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 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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
Heed this advice on how to handle the MBI. If you use a common trick to get your patients’ correct HICN for billing, that option is going away. The Centers for … Continue Reading →
