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stored in: Tim Rowan's Home Care Technology Report and tagged: Bill Bassett of Delta software--and need for easy-to-use software to assist clinicians with payment denial-proof documentation, choosing software for healthcare at home services- and the very difficult choice between popular versions and versions that pinpoint compliance issues that must be addressed, Chris Hester CEO of Kinnser Software and views on role of healthcare at home software to educate clinicians, Denise Shaffer RN and explanation of healthcare at home agencies' Medicare payment denials, documentation of healthcare at home agencies' services--prevalence of claims' denials, documentation of healthcare at home services--differences between doctors' and nurses inclusions, documentation of healthcare at home visits--role of software design, fraud waste and abuse (FWA) of Medicare services and claims--eradication efforts by Medicare contractors, healthcare at home agencies' payments from Medicare--reasonable documentation requirements, Marie Finnegan of Allscripts' HomeCare division--and views on software vendors putting up guardrails that force clinicians to produce audit-proof documentation (that ensures compliance and accuracy, Medicare claim payments deniasl--reasons identified, Medicare payments to healthcare at home agencies--incidence of denial in 2015, software design and its role in healthcare at home services documentation, Tom Maxwell COO of Homecare Homebase software and views on its EMR software and its provision of "defensible documentation"
By Tim Rowan “We have clinicians complaining that we have them document too much, as if that was a bad thing. Ah, but they are all so happy that they have the documentation when CMS tries to get its money back.” This front-line analysis by a healthcare at home nurse supervisor summarizes one of the […]
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