While there have been many changes to current requirements granted as administrative relief during the current Public Health Emergency (PHE), perhaps the big...

Joe Osentoski, BAS, RN-BC ADR and Appeals Specialist Gateway Home Health Coding & Consulting LLC Per CMS, the Medicare Fee for Service (FFS) Recovery Audit P...

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, your time-keeping, ...

Joe Osentoski, BAS, RN-BC ADR and Appeals Specialist Gateway Home Health Coding & Consulting LLC Palmetto GBA (PGBA), the Jurisdiction M Medicare Administrat...

Joe Osentoski, BAS, RN-BC ADR and Appeals Specialist Gateway Home Health Coding & Consulting LLC Medicare Administrative Contractor Jurisdiction M Palmetto G...

Joe Osentoski, BAS, RN-BC ADR and Appeals Specialist Gateway Home Health Coding & Consulting LLC The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has iss...

Joe Osentoski, BAS, RN-BC ADR and Appeals Specialist Gateway Home Health Coding & Consulting LLC A recent Home Health Care News article was an interview with...

From the desk of Joe Osentoski, BAS, RN-BC ADR and Appeals Specialist Gateway Home Health Coding & Consulting LLC Medicare Administrative Contractor Jurisdic...

You may be seeing a new name & face around Gateway. It is with great pleasure that we introduce to you our newest ADR and Appeals Specialist, Joe Osentoski J...

PDGM EXPOSED - A LIVE open forum Every Tuesday from 1:30pm to 2:30pm Eastern Time REGISTER HERE Starting January 14th, 2020 Gateway will be hosting 3 months...

October 1, 2019 CMS is providing notifications to Home Health Agencies that were determined to be out of compliance with Home Health Quality Reporting Progra...

This two part WEBINAR series will dive into the transition from OASIS-D to OASIS-D1 Join us for part one to learn more about which items are changing and wha...

Gateway clients confirm that Diagnosis Coding can be a primary factor in CMS’s Review Choice Demonstration, specifically the Pre-Claim choice. We have receiv...

Owner Rob Drew featured in For the Record Magazine https://www.fortherecordmag.com/ May, 2019 For decades, incomplete and error-ridden documentation has been...

DALLAS, Tex., and DETROIT, Mich., February 6, 2019 – Home healthcare technology leader Axxess is offering its clients even more robust coding and OASIS docum...

In a January 23, 2018 Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) release from CMS, we discovered some interesting and concerning information. Most of the 10 page docum...

We have been hearing chatter of Home Health Providers experiencing delayed payments and/or returned claims as 2019 begins. Many are confused as to why! Back ...

As you may recall, the American Hospital Association (AHA) and others sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) [American Hospital Associat...

Due to public comments received and stakeholder feedback about CMS’ discharge planning proposal from late 2015, CMS has determined “there are significant pol...