The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is restarting the controversial Recovery Audit Contractor Program—in a limited fashion—in August. CMS informed Congress on August 4, via a letter to congressional health staff members from Lauren Aronson, Director of the CMS Office of Legislation, that the Recovery Audit Contractor Program will be restarted this month. […]
Relias Learning, the leader in SaaS-based training and compliance solutions for the health and human services markets, announced this week that it will make twelve online courses available at no charge for hospice volunteers working for existing Relias customers. This new offering will allow these customers to help prepare all volunteers to work with […]
According to a news bulletin from the American College of Emergency Physicians®, a recent California study discovered that closing hospital emergency departments increases the mortality rate of patients who were forced to go to the next nearest emergency room. Patients admitted to hospitals in the vicinity of a hospital that had closed its emergency […]
“The nature of home healthcare is changing, and along with it the software requirements of home care providers.” This assessment by Kinnser Software COO Christopher Fountain explains two major recent moves by the Austin, Texas software company, helping it shed its 11-year reputation as a low-cost facilitator of Medicare startups. Kinnser announced at last month’s NAHC Financial […]
