The National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) is urgently requesting input from every provider agency regarding the potential impact of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) requirement that certain employers pay a penalty when they do not provide a qualified health plan to employees. NAHC’s efforts to alert the home […]
Medicare contractor CGS, which provides home health and hospice claims processing services in 17 states and the District of Columbia, has identified two computer errors that have been incorrectly rejecting certain claims for all Medicare contractors. The author provides an explanation of the errors drawn from the CGS web site, followed by specific information […]
Monday of this week was October 1, 2012, the first day of Federal Fiscal Year 2013. The first day of a new Supreme Court session and the first day of Medicare hospital readmission penalties. The mass media has finally heard that Medicare will reduce payments to hospitals with high readmission rates by a predetermined percentage […]
CMS has scheduled the next Home Health, Hospice & Durable Medical Equipment (DME) Open Door Forum. Date: Wednesday, October 3, 2012 Time: 2:00pm – 3:00pm, EDT Contact: Dial 800-837-1935 Conference ID: 76245818
