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Compliance Conundrum?
Beacon Health needs your help! Please let us know if you would be interested in speaking with us about this great opportunity. Do you have a compliance issue at your agency that needs to be solved? Let us help you solve it. Beacon Health’s newsletter, Homecare Administrator, is looking for someone with a troubling compliance [...]
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Authors, Contributors Needed!
Fri, Dec 17, 2010
Beacon Health needs your help! Please let us know if you would be interested in speaking with us about these great opportunities. We are looking for an author to write our 2011 book on Reducing Rehospitalizations in Home Care. This book will assist home care leaders and staff in assessing and treating patients to reduce [...]
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Recovery audit contractors
Thu, Oct 7, 2010
The Medicare Modernization Act of 2003 instructed HHS to conduct a three-year demonstration project in five states involving private companies contracted to review Medicare claims to detect improper payments. This includes both overpayment and underpayments. This demonstration project was conducted in California, Florida, Massachusetts, New York, and South Carolina. After it ended March 27, 2008, [...]
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Is CMS’ Mistake Coming Back to Haunt Homecare Providers?
Mon, Aug 2, 2010
You know that feeling. You just hit “send” on an e-mail and then realized it’s going to the wrong person. You try to recall it but once it’s out in cyberspace, it’s there forever. In February 2009, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released some erroneous guidance. It posted a correction on its [...]
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Is it now required that Medicare-certified agencies must complete an OASIS on all patients regardless of pay source?
Tue, Jul 6, 2010
Q: Is it now required that Medicare-certified agencies must complete an OASIS on all patients regardless of pay source? A: There have been no new requirements modifying Section 704 of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003, which temporarily suspended OASIS data collection for non-Medicare and non-Medicaid patients. While a comprehensive assessment [...]
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Can our agency bill Medicare for one skilled nursing visit to administer the flu vaccine if the patient is currently active and we get a physician’s order?
Thu, Mar 4, 2010
Q: Can our agency bill Medicare for one skilled nursing visit to administer the flu vaccine if the patient is currently active, receiving other skilled services, and we get a physician’s order? A: In 2002, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) determined it was not necessary for an agency to obtain orders to [...]
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