Tag: Compliance

RCD Compliance: Essential Guidelines for Home Health Agencies.Medicare’s Review Choice Demonstration (RCD) fundamentally changes the landscape of home health reimbursement—a shift that directly impacts how agencies operate, document,...

Preparing for HOPE: Your Complete Guide to CMS’s New Hospice Assessment Tool.The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is implementing a major change in hospice documentation requirements. The Hospice Outcomes and Patient Evaluation (HOPE) tool...

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...