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| SPONSORED BY Home Health Administrator's Summit Unlock the key to future home health success. Our in-person event at Caesars Palace features a pre-conference and main event focused on the top concerns for home care leaders. | |
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| Skilled Nursing Facility CMS: Pay attention to telehealth billing rules | CMS is reminding providers to ensure that Medicare claims for telehealth are correctly billed. The agency issued broadly expanded telehealth services as part of its response to the COVID-19 public health emergency. However, a 2018 Office of Inspector General audit found that CMS paid practitioners for some telehealth claims that did not meet Medicare requirements … |
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Home Health OIG warns providers about COVID-19 vaccine fraud and abuse | The Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General is reminding providers of the rules around administering the COVID-19 vaccine after complaints from patients charged for the vaccine and other reports of fraud and abuse around vaccine distribution. OIG is reminding all participating providers that they: must administer COVID-19 Vaccine with no out-of-pocket … |
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Featured Event Home Health Coding Summit Coming together, coding together. Join us as we focused on coding accuracy (including COVID-19 codes), the importance of coding in PDGM, a look at new codes and guidance updates, strategies for professional development, process improvement around timely billing and gathering documentation and more. | |
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Home Health President signs sequestration suspension bill into law | On April 14, President Joe Biden signed into law H.R. 1868, which extends a suspension of Medicare sequestration, according to The White House. The move is welcome news to Medicare providers who were preparing for 2% payment cuts if the measure was not approved. The bill was working through Congress last month in an attempt … |
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PPS Alert for Long-Term Care Practicing cultural diversity Culture is a social pattern of behaviors, beliefs, and characteristics of a group of people that are passed on from generation to generation. It is important to understand that cultural characteristics are different from physical characteristics. Many people who have similar physical characteristics do not always have similar cultural characteristics. | |
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