Finance: Report Costs For These Lines, Or Else
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 →
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Hospice: Prepare To Get More Detailed In Your Hospice Cost Report
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 →
Compliance: Know Your Aide Competency Requirements
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 →
Conditions of Participation: CoP Changes To Competency Evals For Aides Put HHAs At Survey Risk
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 →
Billing: Make Sure You’re Ready For New Medicare Cards
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 →
Legislation: Civil, Criminal Penalties Will Cost You More Thanks To Recent Law
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 →
Medical Review: Boosting Your Billing Accuracy With TPE Education Could Help Avoid More Punishing Review
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 →
Fraud & Abuse: Fraud Report Tallies Hospice Enforcement Activities
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 →
Quality: How Does Your Live Discharge Rate Stack Up To Your Peers?
New quality measure aims to ID discharges followed by hospitalization or death. Concerns about hospices discharging patients alive continue, and a newly proposed quality measure takes aim at the sore … Continue Reading →
Appeals: Weigh New Appeal Options Carefully
Your ALJ success rate should factor into your decision, legal experts advise. Don’t forget that the Low-Volume Appeals route isn’t the only way to speed your resolution of Medicare claims … Continue Reading →