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Articles This Month: ICD-9-CM and ICD-10-CM: Some Differences and Similarities; OCR and HIPAA; HIPAA... Read more... Thursday, February 28, 2013     This month's article: Free Home Health Medical Records Audit Form;... Read more... Thursday, January 31, 2013     This month's article: The Role of Compliance; Proper Coding, Homebound... Read more... Friday, December 28, 2012     This month's article: Practical and Succinct Solutions to Coding:... Read more... This month's article: CMS released the Medicare Home Health Final Rule for the Home Health Prospective... Read more...     This month's article: A Validated falls risk assessment from the Missouri Alliance; Code 55 issues... Read more...     This month's article: Update on the Accountable Care Organization (ACO) and... Read more...     This month's article: The ICD-10-CM Manual is available in both a print and an electronic... Read more...     This month's aricticle: As part of the ACA; the Accountable Care Organization (ACO) and the EHR... Read more...   This month's aricticle: Caring for the Bipolar Patient; Psychiatric Nursing in Home Health: Caring... Read more... This month's aricticle: Physicians should be made aware of this reimbursable service, New Models of... Read more... This month's aricticle: No two state Medicaid systems are the same, thus, there are a variety of post-... Read more... This Month's article include ICD-9 CM Code of Conduct and Pain Management: It is a Focus of Care and... Read more... CODING 2012: ICD-10-CM is Upon Us Next Year Agency leaders know that now more than ever, coding... Read more... The Performance Improvement Plan; Silent but Powerful Among RACs, MACs, MICs, and Z-PIC concerns,... Read more... This Month's article HIPAA HITECH addresses security and privacy of data while the PPACA expands... Read more... CMS released the final regulation which implement a new form of healthcare organization, the Accountable... Read more... RACs, MACs, Z-Pics:The Auditors are Unleashed What are your agency case mix averages by admission:... Read more... Documentation, Edits, and Auditors, Are You at Risk? Medicare has been called the “largest wasteful... Read more... P.O.L.S.T. Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment Select Data serves home health and hospice... Read more... Adult Learning Principles: Influencing Patient Outcomes Through Education Understanding the Principles... Read more... Evidence-based practice in Establishing Care Plans for the Home Health Patient: COPD Evidenced – based... Read more... Thursday May 26, 2011 Therapy Requirements For 2011 The CY 2011 Therapy Requirements effective April,... Read more... The Face To Face Encounter - Update On and after April 1, 2011, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid... Read more... The Accountable Care Organization (ACOs): Reshaping Healthcare? Will they reduce the number of home health... Read more... The Face to Face Encounter Required for the Home Health Industry: More Updates... Read more... Industry Changes are Driving Increased Coding and Financial Complexity Every home health agency wants... Read more... The new year approaches with new changes As the new year approaches we realize that many agencies are... Read more... Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! The year is just about to close. We have had a great year at Select... Read more... Finally we can get some insight for next years proposed changes With the upcoming changes coming... Read more... Summer is coming to and end! This has been a busy month for Select Data as the summer quickly winds down.... Read more... Acronym overload! This month we had a few articles touching on the fact that ADRs are on the rise and... Read more... The government is escalating investigations through Recovery Audit Contractors (RACs), Medicare Recovery... Read more... Store and Forward vs Persistant Home health care agencies currently have two... Read more... The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 became federal law in February, 2010 and brought... Read more... 2010 Outlier Cap: Clearly the Wrong Prescription Home health agencies generally view outliers as a... Read more... Revenue Cycle Management: The Key to Meeting Today's Challenges Considering the current regulatory... Read more... OASIS-C changes and what they mean to your agency With the new OASIS-C changes looming around the corner,... Read more... How the RAC audit appeals process works In our last E-Zine we discussed some basic information about RAC... Read more... How are RAC's going to affect your agency? Many agencies have experience or understanding of ADR’s... Read more...
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