Category Archives: Home Health
Avoid the Payroll Issues That Can Jeopardize Your Business
Among the top laws enforced by the Wage and Hour Division of the US Department of Labor (DOL) is the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). This Act governs minimum wage, overtime pay, and recordkeeping, among others, and can result in … Read Full Post
Do Your Processes Need a Check-up?
All companies that have been existence for some time develop policies and processes that are either documented or passed down in sometimes incidental fashion. If the steps are not written down and there’s a question, a long-tenured individual intervenes to … Read Full Post
How to Navigate the Medical Review Projects
Jurisdiction 11 Home Health and Hospice FAQs: Additional Medical Review Projects and CERT To help reduce the Comprehensive Error Rate Testing (CERT) program error rates, Palmetto GBA was recently funded by CMS to undertake additional medical review projects that involve … Read Full Post
Increased Claim Scrutiny!
Palmetto GBA is performing a variety of medical review activities in addition to the reviews discussed in the next article. As part of our normal medical review process, we perform ongoing data analysis and identify services and providers for medical … Read Full Post
Home Health Prospective Payment System Rrate (HH PPS) Update For Calendar Year (CY) 2012
Policy Updates for CY2012 1) Market Basket Update: The home health market basket percentage increase for CY 2012 is 2.4 percent. After reducing it by 1 percentage point as required by the Affordable Care Act, the CY 2012 HH PPS … Read Full Post
Home health PPS 2012 Final Rule is out!
CMS has issued the final rule to update the Home Health Prospective Payment System (HHPPS) for 2012, which includes an estimated decrease of 2.31% (or $431 million). The net effect for providers is a 1.4% payment update, the wage index … Read Full Post
Policies & Procedures: What if we don’t really follow them?
This is Part III of the three-part series on the importance of accurate policies & procedures and why that’s such a big deal. We’ve seen that generic materials, while inexpensive, can have costly repercussions during a survey or regulatory review. … Read Full Post
Policies & Procedures: What about Generic Manuals?
Last time, we discussed the purpose of policies and procedures and companies whose materials are generic to the industry and do not reflect a company’s reality. This time, let’s look at another common issue among regulated organizations: Creative manuals. Creativity … Read Full Post
Policies & Procedures: What’s the big deal?
The purpose of policies and procedures is to guide the organization’s actions and provide parameters for employees to follow. They communicate the company’s standards and required processes, and ensure smooth and seamless operations and transitions….. when they’re followed. We have … Read Full Post
What We’re Reading – IRS offers a Fresh Start
As you know, employers generally “must withhold income taxes, withhold and pay Social Security and Medicare taxes, and pay unemployment tax on wages paid to an employee. [They] don’t generally have to withhold or pay any taxes on payments to … Read Full Post