Medicare is on Warpath for Never-Ending Home Health Recertifications
LAZINESS OR NECESSITY? It’s pretty easy to keep a patient around by sending in a nurse to administer a B12 shot or take vital signs once a week, or perhaps by throwing in an occasional PT visit for home health billing. I’ve watched several agencies recertify patients not just month...
Medicare Part-B Therapy Cap Values for Home Health Billing (CY) 2017
Medicare Change Request (CR) 9865, describes the amounts and policies for Medicare Bart B outpatient therapy caps for home health billing CY 2017. For physical therapy and speech - language pathology combined, the 2017 therapy cap will be $1,980. For occupational therapy, the cap for...
Prepare for OASIS C2 Changes: M1060 - Height and Weight
This blog post will be covering new OASIS C2 item: M1060: Height and Weight
Home Health Billing: Get Paid Faster with Perfect Medicare Finals
The path to fast payment of a claim is a no-brainer. Make sure the Final Claim is error-free. Medicare rejects a claim on an error-by-error basis. You can fix one mistake...but the "inspector" will then re-examine the claim for other inconsistencies. This can be exceedingly...
OASIS C2 Changes Coming January 1st - Are You Prepared?
With OASIS C2 being implemented on January 1st 2017, it’s extremely important that your agency or facility is educated with the upcoming changes. Because of this, we’d like to do our part in helping all agencies familiarize themselves with the new additions and modifications to OASIS.
Home Health Care Policies - Medicare Hospice Transparency Data (CY2014) Revealed
Info via CMS.gov:
Home Health Care Policies - Today, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a new dataset, the Hospice Utilization and Payment Public Use File (Hospice PUF). This data set, which is part of CMS’s suite of Medicare Provider Utilization and Payment...
Home Health Billing: Ease Your Frustration with Delayed Claims
Follow Up with Payers After Submitting Claims
It’s common sense that you should follow up with your payers after you send them claims... but many of us don’t do it.
Home Health Care Policies: CMS Announces Changes Affecting Long-Term Care Facilities
CMS finalizes improvements in care, safety, and consumer protections for long-term care facility residentsRevisions mark first major rewrite of the conditions of participation for long-term care facilities since 1991
