by John Reisinger | Mar 17, 2017 | Cost Reporting, Financial Analysis, Financial Management
Do You Know Your Medicare Margins? Medicare Margins (as a % of Medicare revenues) have been bandied about for over a decade here in home health. The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPac) and CMS are the two biggest promoters of this metric. MedPac submits...
by John Reisinger | Jul 29, 2016 | CMS Proposed Rules, Face-to-Face, Face-toFace, Uncategorized
Take advantage of this rare opportunity and participate in the Rule-Making-Process: Submit Comments In today’s Fed’l Register CMS has once again given the home health industry an opportunity to submit comments about the Face-to-Face (F2F) regulation; particularly in...
by John Reisinger | Mar 29, 2016 | CMS Proposed Rules, Prior Authorizations for Home Health Services
On Feb 5, 2016, CMS proposed a new regulation to establish a Prior Authorization Requirement for Home Health services provided in 5 select states: Florida, Texas, Illinois, Michigan, and Massachusetts The following was extracted from that notice: Type of...
by John Reisinger | Mar 29, 2016 | CMS Proposed Rules, Prior Authorizations for Home Health Services
Following is a copy of the comments that I submitted regarding the CMS proposal of establishing a Prior Authorization Requirement for all home health services in the five states noted (FL, TX, IL, MI & MA). I give anyone/everyone free rights to use my comments...