More patients should be discharged home due to comparable outcomes, lower cost, editorial suggests. Home care providers often use their cost effectiveness and ability to prevent rehospitalizations as a selling point and argument for … Continue Reading →
All Medicare certified institutional providers are required file an annual cost report to their respective Medicare Administrative Contract (“MAC”). But what is a Medicare cost report and what is the … 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 →
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 →
SOC, reprisal IGs could give agencies trouble. Home health agencies have a lot to worry about under the new finalized Interpretive Guidelines. Check out two of the top changes to … Continue Reading →
Warning: Learning curve likely steep. Although it may not always feel like it, many states have been enjoying a survey “honeymoon” since the drastically revised Home Health Conditions of Participation … Continue Reading →
Whistleblower rakes in $2.3 million. Be sure to toe the line in your relationships with institutional referral sources, or you could both get in trouble. Long-term care and rehabilitation hospital … Continue Reading →
What do you do when an MBI changes? Is it your patients’ turn to wade into the new Medicare card ocean? The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has “started mailing new … Continue Reading →
TPE net reportedly catches lots of home care providers. Scrutiny of home health and hospice claims is on the rise, and you’d better know where that scrutiny may be coming … Continue Reading →
