HIPAA: Boost Compliance By Reviewing Top 10 Cybersecurity Terms
What you don’t know may hurt you. Failing to keep up to date on important cybersecurity issues can leave you wide open for a HIPAA breach. Keeping in sync with … Continue Reading →
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Hospice: Switching To Monthly Drug, DME Reporting Is Optional
PA changes disappoint. Medicare’s new instructions for drug and DME claims reporting may be less prescriptive than they first appear. In CR 10573, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services sends Medicare … Continue Reading →
Regulations: Medicare Will Keep The OASIS Guidance Coming
Plus: Rural add-on, QRP education, more. Perhaps due in part to the appearance of OASIS-D on the horizon, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services plans to resume its quarterly issuance of … Continue Reading →
Survey & Certification: PoC Deficiency Tops Citation List Under New CoPs
Just keep waiting on those CoP Interpretive Guidelines. Home health agency survey citations are racking up, and yet the Interpretive Guidelines for surveyors regarding the new Home Health Conditions of … Continue Reading →
HIPAA: Cover These HIPAA Basics Or Risk Hefty Penalties
Learn a valuable lesson from this $2.3 million HIPAA settlement. If you skimp on risk management or other HIPAA core duties, you may have to pay big when a breach … Continue Reading →
Hospice: Don’t Let Physician Assistant Hospice Change Confuse You
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 →
Health Information: Medicare Gears Up For EHealth Info Exchange Requirements
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 →
Quality: Quality Takes Center Stage In Proposed Hospice Rule
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 →
Conditions of Participation: Don’t Let Simple Address Mistakes Torpedo Your Survey
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 →
Regulations: Medicare Rolls Out Electronic Signatures For Cost Reports
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 →