Tag: Compliance

Preparing for a Medicare Audit: A Checklist for Home Health Agencies.Medicare audits represent a defining moment for home health agencies, with the potential to significantly impact operational stability and financial health. As regulatory oversight...

Before and after: A survey guide for behavioral healthcare providers.Surveys can be stressful, but they offer healthcare providers the chance to look under the hood and figure out exactly where the engine of the organization needs a tune-up. A little...

Behavioral healthcare providers need to tighten clinical documentation for new RADV audits.Behavior health providers doing business with Medicare Advantage need to shore up their clinical documentation with greater diagnosis specificity and accurate documentation as they...

Compliance risks are escalating for behavioral health providers in 2024. Here’s why..By J’NON GRIFFIN RN, MHA, HCS-D, HCS-H, HCS-C, HCS-O, COS-CSr. Vice President of Compliance & CodingIf you’ve been paying attention, you’ve noticed more than a few signs...

Rapid growth and high-profile press highlight need for hospice compliance.By Kim Skehan, RN, MSN, HCS-D, COS-CDirector, Compliance, Regulatory & Quality With the season for sleigh bells and street corner bell ringers underway, hospice advocates are...

Under OCR scrutiny? RSVPing with RSPs may help.Recent changes require policy edits, staff training  Q. When is an RSVP, the French initialism meaning “respond, please,” more than proper etiquette? A. When the...

Supreme Court turns away 10-state challenge to vaccine mandate.A legal challenge to the COVID-19 health care worker vaccination mandate by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will not be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court. On...

HQRP measures continue through FY2023.By Maureen Kelleher, RN, MBA SimiTree Senior Manager The FY2022 Hospice Quality Reporting Program (HQRP) contains four quality measures that capture care across the hospice stay.