by Tim Rowan, Editor As this issue was going to press, the March 1 Sequestration deadline came and went, with all sides spending more time arguing who is to blame than writing legislation. Medicare providers will face a 2% rate reduction if sequestration is not avoided but it is not that simple.
by Robert Moretta Jr., MBA (cand.) The United States is in the early stages of a demographic shift as the percentage of elderly citizens steadily increases, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Home health care agencies should anticipate this shift by taking the initiative to better prepare themselves for the expected influx of new […]
Five years ago, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) ordered CMS to stop using Social Security numbers on Medicare cards. According to a new report and testimony to Congress by the General Accounting Office (GAO), CMS has not gotten around to complying yet. Details about how CMS intends to correct this oversight and the […]
The U.S. Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General has released a scathing report of home health billing practices. To place some controls on the degree of fraud and abuse it detected, OIG called for CMS to impose a moratorium on opening new home health care agencies in Texas and Florida, where it says […]
When Steven Schwartz, Director of Business Operations for theard that it was Charles Tobey on the phone, and that he is with the New York State Department of Health, Bureau of Long Term Care Reimbursement (Medicaid), he was understandably a little unnerved. By the time he hung up the phone, he was grinning…and calling his […]
