Nearly all home health and hospice agencies will at one time or another experience some form of Medicare Medical Review (MR) CMS Medical...

Virtually every home health agency uses an Electronic Medical Record (EMR) to generate clinical documentation and meet certification...

Over the past number of years, homecare and hospice agencies have been wise in choosing to outsource ICD-10 Coding and Quality Assurance...

CMS has just issued MedLearnMatters MLN MM12615 MLN 1135 related to Change Request (CR) Number 12615. Part of this was to address...

Recent postings from Medicare Administrative Contractors (MAC) Palmetto GBA and CGS Administrators have shown that the top reasons for...

With the end of 2021 and start of 2022 it is time to take a quick look at the world of Medical Review and what agencies may be seeing in...

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We just passed the tenth anniversary of the implementation of the physician face-to-face encounter—issued as Medicare Benefit Policy...

This month there was a joke that the Groundhog, upon poking his head out of his burrow on February 2, determined that there was going to...

As the Public Health Emergency (PHE) continues, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has made some recent adjustments to...

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This week shows two major actions in relation to medical review of home health records during the Public Health Emergency (PHE). First...

While there have been many changes to current requirements granted as administrative relief during the current Public Health Emergency...

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Review Choice Demonstration and Public Health Emergency

And that it could be effective for cost reports being prepared for CY2019? Chances are that your internal records (the Chart of Accounts,...

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