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Don’t Let Patients’ Financial Hardship Become Yours
Discounts and write-offs are options, if you follow these guidelines. That a patient may have trouble paying his bills because of financial difficulty is a discouraging fact of the modern economic climate. While you certainly remain concerned for your patients’…
Continue reading...CERT Targets Physician Signatures In Home Care
5. April 2010
Back to the basics: Don’t bill unless you have the doc signature on the POC. Just because the physician signature rule is an old one doesn’t make your claim any less denied in medical review. The latest Comprehensive Error Rate Testing…
Continue reading...Top 3 Common Compliance Mistakes Hospices Make
22. March 2010
Your hospice should already have a compliance plan with 8 elements, developed in accordance with the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines: Written standards of conduct and written policies & procedures A Compliance Team Education and training Effective lines of communication Disciplinary…
Continue reading...How One CNA Cost One Facility $33,400
15. March 2010
Your quick-start guide to the OIG Exclusion List If you’re looking to a temporary staffing agency to help your facility through a nursing staff crunch, don’t forget to ask, “Do you check the HHS OIG’s Excluded Providers List”? Premier Medical…
Continue reading...Are You RAC-Ready, Healthcare Providers?
5. March 2010
Today’s the day you learn how much you know about the RACs, and how prepared you are for them to launch fishing expeditions into your claims. Last week, we posted this RAC quiz,…
Continue reading...Round-Up of the RACs’ New Issues
22. February 2010
Tracheostomies, oxygen equipment are on the hit lists. The RACs recently posted a round of issues concerning procedures that were performed from Oct. 1, 2007 to the present. Region A: Diversified Collection Services (Connecticut, Delaware,…
Continue reading...What DME Suppliers Need To Know About Telemarketing Compliance
18. February 2010
You can’t contact a new bene without his written consent, except in this instance. We meant what we said and we said what we meant, the HHS Office of Inspector General essentially said when it reissued a 2003 fraud alert…
Continue reading...4 Hospice Compliance Hotspots You Must Watch
8. February 2010
Take special care in hospice/nursing home arrangements. The OIG has hospice agencies in its sites with over two dozen areas on its watch list. Tighten up your compliance plan to make sure your compliance plan is covering all the bases.…
Continue reading...HIPAA Compliance: How to Craft an Airtight Breach Notification Policy
1. February 2010
Start with this handy checklist for breach notification policies and procedures. We recently covered the steps your facility or practice needs to take to get ready for the February 22 enforcement deadline for the…
Continue reading...Prepare for Feb. 22 Enforcement of Security Breach Regs with These 5 Steps
24. January 2010
Your facility or office has taken the advice of experts and crafted a security management process that protects the confidentiality of the personal health information in your patients’ records. You believe you are compliant with ARRA and…
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12. April 2010
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