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Medicare Home Health Agencies and Medical Social Services (MSS)
Let’s talk about the role of the medical social worker in the home health setting. In these tougher economic times, are agencies seeing a growing need for MSS? Have social and emotional factors risen? What MSS skills are necessary to best serve the patient? How can the MSS best assist your agency? The patient Plan [...]
Read more...The Affordable Care Act and Bundling Payments
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has caused much change in health care and another change is being encouraged: a Bundling Payments initiative. The Department of Health and Human Services recently announced a new initiative designed to help patients receive improved acute and post care. Physicians, acute care facilities, and other health care providers [...]
Read more...Documentation, Edits, and Auditors, Are You at Risk?
In September and October, the ezine and nation-wide teleconference presented by Select Data will focus on Documentation and Compliance. Check the Select Data website for dates for the teleconference: Documentation Requirements for Compliant Billing. This week’s article: Documentation, Edits, and Auditors, Are You at Risk? Let’s Talk Documentation and Edits Medicare has been called the [...]
Read more...Education Videos: Coding Compliance Diabetic Complications – CVA Part I of II
Coding Compliance Diabetic Complications – CVA Part I of II Coding Compliance Diabetic Complication – Late Effects of a CVA Part I Many times we see a diagnosis of diabetes and throughout the assessment we will see PVD, Neuropathy, Chronic Kidney Disease, Ulcers, and other diagnoses. We cannot code any of these complications unless they [...]
Read more...The Corporate Compliance Program in Healthcare
The government is escalating investigations through Recovery Audit Contractors (RACs), Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs), Medicaid Integrity Contractors (MICs), Zone Program Integrity Contractors (Z-PICs), and now, the Health Care Fraud Prevention and Enforcement Action Team (HEAT). Home Health agencies are at a critical crossroads. It is essential that agencies take control, review processes, and proactively identify [...]
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