The first component of the P-E-M approach for dealing with Recovery Audit Contractors is to prepare. Preparation for RACs includes conducting a baseline compliance audit to assess a hospice’s vulnerability and risk. It also includes getting ready for “RAC attacks” by making certain appropriate personnel are assigned key responsibilities essential to building a RAC infrastructure. This may already be in […]
RAC Assistance for Hospices is an educational service in newsletter form provided by Weatherbee Resources, Inc. to help hospices deal with the scrutiny conducted by Recovery Audit Contractors (RACs). In addition, one of the goals of RAC Assistance for Hospice is to monitor and assess the impact of the RACs on hospices across the country. […]
Home care’s original and best-known technology journal has evolved into a bigger and better format. Read editor Tim Rowan’s welcome letter and explanation of what to expect from “Home Care Tech Report.”
Once exclusively involved on the disease management side of healthcare, Cardiocom® has recently been making a name for itself within home care and hospice. During July, the Chanhassen, Minnesota home telehealth manufacturer and vendor announced three major new contracts.
On June 25, a New Hampshire RN filed a civil suit against three officials of the Obama Administration alleging the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act’s (ARRA) health IT provisions violate HIPAA privacy provisions. The suit, filed by the nurse’s attorney husband, expresses fears that the stimulus funds will weaken HIPAA privacy safeguards and allow the government to dictate care plans to physicians.
Across the healthcare spectrum, there is a growing consensus that telehealth is a vital element of 21st century healthcare. Those who agree are invited to sign a petition so that Medicare will get the message.
Before the nation’s home care CFOs left Boston last week, NAHC Financial Manager meeting chair Bill Dombi was able to get the Calendar Year 2010 Medicare pay rate proposal hot off the presses and explain it to an audience most concerned about the news. Dombi’s analysis adds to our repeat of the information published July 30 in the Federal Register.
VW is a regular HCTR feature that welcomes press releases and vendor announcements regarding new product introductions, personnel moves, mergers and acquisitions and other news items of interest to home care and hospice management and technology staff. This week, VW has come across three completely unrelated items about a service provider’s grand gesture, a new entry into the mobile technology market and a step to help patients feel more secure about having their health information online.
One of the legal points revealed by NAHC attorney Denise Bonn last week was the requirement that Recovery Audit Contractors prepare a region with training about their planned activities before they can conduct audits in the region. Two brief stories that have come to our attention here at RAC Assistance for Home Care are worth […]
Benjamin Franklin did not have Recovery Audit Contractors in mind but he was certainly prescient when he proposed his famed 1:16 effectiveness ratio: “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” Wise home care and hospice owners and other executives will have already begun a policy review and clinician training effort. Improving documentation […]
