Home Health & Hospice Week
OIG Report Agitates For HHA Surety Bonds
"Ensuring Quality of Care in Nursing Facilities and Home- and Community-Based Set-tings" is one of the HHS Office of Inspector Gen-eral’s top 10 management challenges from this year, it says in a new report. "Fighting Fraud and Waste in Medicare Parts A & B" is another, the OIG says.
To that end, "CMS should implement the surety bond requirement for home health agencies, and CMS should consider increasing surety bond amounts above $50,000 for those home health agencies with high overall Medicare payment amounts," the watchdog agency urges.
Plus: "CMS should continue to build on its progress in addressing program integrity contractor performance and oversight challenges, including developing additional performance evaluation metrics, particularly for high-risk providers such as home health agencies and community mental health centers in fraud-prone areas," the OIG counsels.
See the report at .
Home Health & Hospice Week
- Quality:
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Get Your Hospice Coding Procedures Straight
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Consider Carefully When Hiring Contract Therapists
Tip: Perform a cost benefit analysis when deciding whether to hire directly or contract out. [...] - OASIS:
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Prepare Now For Revamped HIPAA Audits
Plus: Understand the new HIPAA enforcement penalty structure. Very likely, sooner or later, you’ll face [...] - Patient Privacy:
Be Ready To Produce These Documents For A HIPAA Audit
Get ahead by knowing exactly what auditors will expect. Sure, HIPAA auditors will want you [...] - Diagnosis Coding:
Don't Leave Your ICD-10 Training Until The Last Minute
Do you know what you can do today that will pave the way for a [...] - Industry Note:
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OIG Report Agitates For HHA Surety Bonds
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Want to know which new supplies and therapy codes you’ll soon be responsible for under [...] - Industry Note:
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Additional home care providers in the Detroit area will be getting more than coal in [...]
