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A recently proposed bill would allow tax-exempt distributions from health savings accounts (HSAs) to be used for qualified home care. The Homecare for Seniors Act was introduced in the Senate on Feb. 10. It specifies that under qualified home care a contract would offer three or more services for the service recipient, according to the bill. Services […]
Source: The Bottom Line Medicare covers urinary catheters and external urinary collection devices when they are used to drain or collect urine for a resident with permanent urinary incontinence or permanent urinary retention. According to CMS, permanent urinary retention occurs when the condition is not expected to be medically or surgically corrected within three months. […]
by The Bottom Line Flu season is August to April. Make sure you’re prepared to start billing for the influenza virus vaccine by staying up to date on the latest code and payment allowance updates. So far, CMS has released the following two notices: 1. Payment allowances for the influenza virus vaccine are updated on […]
Written by Becky Ziviski, CPA, LNHA, speaker and author of Profit Without Census: A Nursing Home Administrator’s Guide to Profitability by Department. Editor’s note: This post is an excerpt taken from the full article originally published in the August issue of PPS Alert for Long-Term Care. A delay in the application process for Medicaid can […]
In a recent MLN Matters article, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published revisions to editing of Part B “Always Therapy” services, identifying outpatient therapy (OPT) services that must always be accompanied by a discipline-specific therapy modifier. CMS states that Change Request (CR) 10176, intended for therapists, physicians, and certain other practitioners billing […]
Apria Healthcare, which makes home healthcare devices, has been ordered to pay $750,000 to resolve obligations that they billed patients that were already covered by MassHealth, Massachusetts’ state insurance program. The State Attorney General’s office told WWLP.com that between December of 2011 and April of 2017, some 1,000 MassHealth members were inappropriately billed, and of […]
By Jordan Rau, Kaiser Health News ORANGE, Va. — Alice Jacobs, 90, once owned a factory and horses. She raised four children and buried two husbands. But years in an assisted living facility drained her savings, and now she relies on Medicaid to pay for her care at Dogwood Village, a nonprofit, county-owned nursing home […]
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has extended the comment deadline for the advance notice of proposed revisions to case-mix methodology rule from June 26, 2017 to August 25, 2017. The advance notice of proposed rulemaking, titled “Prospective Payment System and Consolidated Billing for Skilled Nursing Facilities: Revisions to Case-mix Methodology,” was published […]
HCPro’s new Skilled Nursing Facility Billing Boot Camp covers the latest Medicare billing rules and regulations so that you can help your facility bill appropriately for services and prevent payment denials. The bootcamp will be held Monday, August 14 – Tuesday, August 15, from 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Skilled Nursing Facility Billing Boot Camp provides […]
In a final rule published in the Federal Register today, May 19, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) finalized May 20, 2017 as the effective date of the bundled payment models and changes to the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement Model and delayed the implementation date of the final rule to January 1, […]