Prepare Yourself With Hospice Updates 2014

For the 2014 FY, CMS feels that hospice payments will increase by 1.1%. But Hospices that could not report quality measures that were mandatory under the HQRP at the beginning of this year will have 2% reduction in the market basket values.

Hospice Coding Guidelines: New Data Included In Claims Will Affect Pay

In the coming year, the data on your hospice claims that you will submit to Medicare will decide your payment rates in the future. Next year, hospice coding guidelines according to CMS points out additional new data must be included in hospice claims like reporting visit for general inpatient care, facility NPI where care was provided if not at the billing hospice facility, and infusion pumps and prescription drugs.

Medicare Guidelines: Boost Your Medicare Payments

For a lot of medical practices, Medicare payments make up a large percentage of accounts receivables. For maximized reimbursements, providers are required to take proactive measures. Following are few simple ways to enhance your Medicare payments.

OASIS-C Training: Ace M1320 with These Tips

CMS provides enough guidance on answering M1320 (Status of most problematic pressure ulcer). However, you’ll still required to use your clinical decision to choose the right answer. Go through these OASIS-C training tips and know more.

1. It’s your call to select the criterion for “most problematic.” It could be the largest

ICD 10 Training Online: Different Between ICD-9 and ICD-10 Systems

In a lot of ways, ICD-10-CM is quite related to ICD-9-CM. The guidelines, conventions, and rules are very similar. The organization of the both code sets is very similar. Anyone who is eligible to code ICD-9-CM must be able to make the smooth transition to ICD-10-CM coding.

A lot of improvement has been made to diagnosis coding in ICD-10-CM. For instance,

Long Term Care Conference Tips: Stay on the Top of the Latest Survey Changes

CMS had put a new home health agency survey protocol in place which contained in Survey & Certification letter S&C: 11-11- HHA and modified Appendix B of Medicare’s State Operations Manual.

Although the new survey protocol has been in force for quite some time, a lot of HHAs

HIPAA Conference Tip: Ensure Security Rule Compliance

The Privacy Rule, or Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information are those established standards which protect certain health information. On the other hand the Security Rules protect certain health information that is held or transferred in electronic form.