This week’s updates include payment changes for home health agencies and OIG’s 2015 work plan. Click the link above to read more about this week’s updates.
In an effort to make physicians more accountable for proper documentation, CMS has been doing the transmittal shuffle as of late--and the process may have you thoroughly confused.
If the 2-midnight rule keeps you up at night, it might help to add some PEPPER to your processes. CMS recently updated PEPPER, otherwise known as the Program for Evaluating Payment Patterns Electronic Report, to provide hospitals with insight into how well they're doing with 2-midnight rule compliance.