“Suffocated”      “Frustrated”      “Nervous”    “Frightened” We asked readers whether they had noticed an uptick in the frequency of payment denials, ADRs, ZPIC audits and dings for documentation errors. Your answers revealed that there is a lot of frustration out there, and it has two sources: frustration with commission-hungry Medicare contractors who find errors where there are […]

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by Tim Rowan, editor Fulfilling its mission to educate home healthcare providers, Palmetto Government Benefits Administrators sent two experts this week to a conference sponsored by the New Mexico Association for Home & Hospice Care. Agency administrators came prepared with questions and it appeared as though educators Marilyn Jeske and Charles Canaan were expecting them…not […]

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