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Tuesday April 30, 2013
Read Article >>Articles This Month: ICD-9-CM and ICD-10-CM: Some Differences and Similarities; OCR and HIPAA; HIPAA Rules and the HITECH Act - Patient Privacy:
Articles This Month: ICD-9-CM and ICD-10-CM: Some...
Thursday February 28, 2013
Read Article >>Free Home Health Medical Records Audit Form; Free slides for the "Documentation, Edits and Auditors: Are You at Risk?"; Good Coding: Helps Your Agency Keep It's Revenue: Bad Coding: Can Mean You Lose Revenue; Preparing to Be Survey Ready Always? 10 Steps to Success.: Thursday, February 28, 2013
This month's...
Thursday January 31, 2013
Read Article >>The Role of Compliance: Home Health and Hospital Readmissions; Proper Coding, Homebound Status, and Awareness of Common Edits: Paid But Will You Retain Your Revenue?; Patient Self-Management, Health Literacy, and Clinical Education: Thursday, January 31, 2013
This month's article:...
Friday December 28, 2012
Read Article >>Practical and Succinct Solutions to Coding; Teaching as the Basis for Qualifying a Patient for Medicare Coverage; Psychiatric Nursing in Home Health and Care of Patients with Depression: Friday, December 28, 2012
This month's article:...
Saturday December 1, 2012
Read Article >>The Affordable Care Act, Long Term Care in Home Health, Summary of the CMS Released 2013 Final Rule:
This month's article: CMS released the Medicare Home...
Wednesday October 31, 2012
Read Article >>A Validated falls risk assessment from the Missouri Alliance; Code 55 issues and Proposed 2013 rule impact on provider revenue:
This month's article: A Validated falls risk...
Friday September 28, 2012
Read Article >>Update on the Accountable Care Organization (ACO); Billing Compliance and Proposed Survey Sanction; What is the Patient Centered Medical Model?:
This month's article: Update on the Accountable...
Friday August 31, 2012
Read Article >>ICD-10: An Overview Part I and Part II, The OIG and their Focus on SIx Measures of Questionable Billing:
This month's article: The ICD-10-CM Manual is...
Monday July 30, 2012
Read Article >>The Accountable Care Organization (ACO) along with the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) Part III & Part IV; Home Health Providers Should be Aware of New Updates:
This month's aricticle: As part of the ACA; the...
Thursday July 5, 2012
Read Article >>Psychiatric Nursing in Home Health: The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) Part I & II:
This month's aricticle: Caring for the Bipolar...
Friday June 1, 2012
Read Article >>Physicians and Care Plan Oversight (CPO) and Certification/Recertification; The Patient Care Medical Model and Guided Care: Home Health Collaboration:
This month's aricticle: Physicians should be made...
Thursday April 26, 2012
Read Article >>The Surveillance and Utilization Review Subsystem (SURS) - Medicaid is monitoring payment for care and now closely monitoring physician practices.:
This month's aricticle: No two state Medicaid...
Thursday March 29, 2012
Read Article >>Proper ICD-9 CM Coding and an Effective Code of Conduct: Both are Essential in Home Health Care Today; Pain Management: It is a Focus of Care and a Focus of Auditors Part 1 & Part 2:
This Month's article include ICD-9 CM Code of...
Wednesday February 29, 2012
Read Article >>Auditors are Making Their Presence Known: Prepare for RACs, MACs, and Z-PICs; ICD-10 is Still Coming. The question is WHEN.:
CODING 2012: ICD-10-CM is Upon Us Next Year...
Tuesday January 31, 2012
Read Article >>The Performance Improvement Plan; The New Survey Protocols, The RACs are Coming:
The Performance Improvement Plan; Silent but Powerful...
Wednesday December 28, 2011
Read Article >>Caring Across the Transitions; The 2012 HHPPS Final Rule; Ethics and Accountability in an Electronic Age: 2012:
This Month's article HIPAA HITECH addresses...
Wednesday November 30, 2011
Read Article >>CMS released the final regulation; Compliance Q&A; Speech and Language Pathology, the "OTHER" Therapy: CMS released the final regulation which implement a new...
Thursday October 27, 2011
Read Article >>RACs, MACs, Z-Pics:The Auditors are Unleashed, OBQM/Chart Audits and the New Survey Protocols, HHCAHPS: RACs, MACs, Z-Pics:The Auditors are Unleashed
What...
Wednesday September 28, 2011
Read Article >>Documentation, Edits, and Auditors, Are You at Risk?, The Affordable Care Act and Bundling Payments, Medicare Home Health Agencies and Medical Social Services (MSS): Documentation, Edits, and Auditors, Are You at Risk?...
Wednesday September 28, 2011
Read Article >>P.O.L.S.T. Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment, Hospice Face-to-Face Encounter Requirement, The Corporate Compliance Program in Healthcare(includes Power Point): P.O.L.S.T. Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining...
Thursday July 28, 2011
Read Article >>Adult Learning Principles: Influencing Patient Outcomes Through Education, CMS Issues CY 2012 Rule Proposed, Start Preparing NOW for ICD-10 Coding: Adult Learning Principles: Influencing Patient Outcomes...
Wednesday June 29, 2011
Read Article >>Evidence-based practice in Establishing Care Plans for the Home Health Patient: COPD, Evidence-based practice in Establishing Care Plans for the Home Health Patient: CHF, Office of Civil Rights (OCR) and HIPAA, Missed and PRN Visits : Evidence-based practice in Establishing Care Plans for...
Thursday May 26, 2011
Read Article >>Therapy Requirements for 2011, Utilizing Best Practices for Patients with Heart Failure, Psychiatric Nursing in Home Health Care: Thursday May 26, 2011
Therapy Requirements For 2011
The...
Thursday April 28, 2011
Read Article >>The Face To Face Encounter - UPDATE, The Growing Importance Of Revenue Cycle Management, Part 4: Record Reviews/Home Visits/Analysis/Assigning Citations, Recources: The Face To Face Encounter - Update
On and after April...
Wednesday March 30, 2011
Read Article >>ACO's Reshaping Healthcare?, Agressive Fraud Tools, New Survey Protocols Part 1, 2, & 3: The Accountable Care Organization (ACOs): Reshaping...
Wednesday March 2, 2011
Read Article >>Face to Face Updates, HIPAA HI-TECH Updates, and New RAC efforts for Medicare Advantage and Medicaid: The Face to Face Encounter Required for the Home Health...
Monday January 31, 2011
Read Article >>ICD-10-CM Coding whitepaper, new updates, and M&E article: Industry Changes are Driving Increased Coding and...
Wednesday December 29, 2010
Read Article >>G Code changes for 2011: The new year approaches with new changes
As the new year...
Monday December 20, 2010
Read Article >>Assessment tools for 2011, Face to Face Encounter, and Final CMS 2011 Changes: Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
The year is just...
Sunday November 14, 2010
Read Article >>Summary of the Final CY2011 Home Health Payment Rule:
Finally we can get some insight for next years...
Thursday October 21, 2010
Read Article >>Summer is coming to and end!: Summer is coming to and end!
This has been a busy month...
Thursday August 26, 2010
Read Article >>RACs, MACs, Z-PICs; and HHCAPs: Acronym overload!
This month we had a few articles...
Tuesday July 20, 2010
Read Article >>Corporate Compliance Programs in Home Healthcare: The government is escalating investigations through...
Thursday May 27, 2010
Read Article >>Two Dynamic Modes for Linking Point-of-Care with EMR Systems: Store and Forward vs Persistant...
Tuesday April 20, 2010
Read Article >>The HITECH Act and HIPAA: The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009...
Wednesday March 10, 2010
Read Article >>2010 Outlier Cap: 2010 Outlier Cap: Clearly the Wrong Prescription
Home...
Thursday January 28, 2010
Read Article >>Revenue Cycle Management: Revenue Cycle Management: The Key to Meeting Today's...
Tuesday December 15, 2009
Read Article >>Oasis-C Changes : OASIS-C changes and what they mean to your agency
With...
Friday November 20, 2009
Read Article >>RAC Audit Process: How the RAC audit appeals process works
In our last...
Saturday October 3, 2009
Read Article >>RAC effects on agency: How are RAC's going to affect your agency?
Many agencies...
