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Post-Acute Care and Home Health Care
What happen to the Acute-Care organization's Discharge Planners and the Post-Acure Care Home Health Care Community Liaison? These roles have disappeared to be replace ....
Submitting Request for Records to Medicare
More than 47% of denials by PalmettoGBA for the period of 10/2017-12/2018 were related to...... Read More...
CMS Proposed Rule of the Home Health QAPI Program
CMS propose regulations needs more work! Make home care organizations assign the QAPI Program responsibilities to a staff member who is free of conflict between the non-clinical and clinical departments in the home care organization.
Encouraging Physicians to Properly Complete Face to Face Encounters
Physicians may find themselves being denied payment by CMS for Case Management overseen fees and office visits due to poor documentation in their patient\\\'s medical record.
Tips
CMS Star Report
Do you know where to go to get your Medicare Star Report?
Have your organization updated the Notice of Medicare Non-coverage (NOMNC) forms with the new QIO information?
Up-date your organization Notice of Medicare Non-Coverage (NOMNC) forms! Effective August 1, 2015 QIOs toll free number that appears in the Notice of Medicare Non-Coverage (NOMNC) has changed for Florida Beneficary in area 2: KEPRO - (844)455-8708
Ready for CMS QAPI Program?
According to CMS in 2011 several nursing homes providers begun testing CMS QAPI Program, Quality Assurance (QA) and Performance Improvement (PI), Program which includes Five Elements...
Samples of Documentation
Documentation that reflects what skills were actually performed by the clinician...
Effective Infrastructure Process Can Help Your Agency Succeed:
Clinical Processes:
- Timely submission of completed OASIS C-1/Comprehensive Assessments by clinicians
- POC completed and mailed within 5 days of SOC/ Recert
- Quarterly chart audits
- Completing Patient and Employee Occurrence Reports
- Completing Patient and Employee Infection Control Reports
- Staff Meetings that includes educational sessions
