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 →
Do you know the increases? The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 changed more than just reimbursement. Get to know the substantial civil and criminal penalty updates for things as minor … Continue Reading →
Don’t wait until the round is over to implement improvements. Seeing the error of your billing ways — and changing them immediately — could get you off punishing Targeted Probe … Continue Reading →
High-profile cases paint industry with fraud brush. The hospice industry continues to draw fraud-fighting attention from the feds, as shown in a recent report on the Health Care Fraud and … Continue Reading →
