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Physician’s Guide to Medicare’s Home Health Certification and Face- to-Face
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May 14th, 2012
On May 11, the Medicare Learning Network (MLN) announced that “A Physician’s Guide to Medicare’s Home Health Certification, including the Face-to-Face Encounter” is available for download. The MLN article is designed to provide education to physicians on requirements for the home health...
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New Mobile Notifications for Onsite Unscheduled Surveys
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May 14th, 2012
Customers of the Joint Commission can now access a mobile-device friendly “Notification of Scheduled Events”. This includes a notice of onsite survey and can be access via smart phones such as: iPhones, Android devices, Windows phones and Blackberrys. This is extremely helpful for those agencies...
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CEO Column: In the Face of Outrageous Fraud, It’s Really, Seriously Time for a Moratorium
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Mar 5th, 2012
If you don’t know the name Jacques Roy yet, you soon will. He’s the Dallas, Texas, physician arrested last week on charges of ripping off $375 million from the Medicare and Medicaid programs through an elaborate scheme involving falsified claims for home health care services never provided or...
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CEO Column: The Innovation Imperative: Two Members Take a Leadership Role
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Feb 6th, 2012
The crushing burden of face-to-face encounter documentation rules is close to breaking the back of some VNAA members. Therapy documentation rules are doing the same (one member told me it was the worst she had ever seen in 25 years in home health). Claims payment delays, RAC audits, a flood of...
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CMS Tells MACs to Review Specific Face-to-Face Denials
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Dec 12th, 2011
According to new instructions issued by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on Thursday, December 8, Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs) are now required to review certain face-to-face encounter-related denials. As VNAA has been arguing on behalf of providers, many of these...
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Medicaid Home Health Rule
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Nov 14th, 2011
On July 12, 2011, CMS published a proposed rule that would implement an Affordable Care Act (ACA) requirement that physicians document the existence of a face-to-face encounter. However, the issue date for the final rule is not certain and is likely to be several months away. In a recent discussion...
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