HomeCare Experts
For updates on legislative and regulatory issues, the inside scoop from Washington and advice on better ways to run your business, check these exclusive HomeCare columns every month.
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| AAHomecare Update Washington Wit & Wisdom Better Business Sales Notebook |
Accreditation Now Billing & Reimbursement Compliance University Working Down Denials |
AAHomecare Update
Tyler J. Wilson is president and CEO of the American Association for Homecare, headquartered in Arlington, Va. He may be reached at tylerw@aahomecare.org. For more information on critical home care issues, visit the association's Web site at www.aahomecare.org.
Reform Reboots
Priorities for the HME sector speak to problems in existing law as well as threats that will remain on the table in terms of potential congressional action....
Washington Wit & Wisdom
A specialist in health care legislation, regulations and government relations, Cara C. Bachenheimer is senior vice president, government relations, for Invacare Corp., Elyria, Ohio. Bachenheimer previously worked at the law firm of Epstein, Becker & Green in Washington, D.C., and at the American Association for Homecare and the Health Industry Distributors Association. You can reach her by phone at 440/329-6226 or by e-mail at cbachenheimer@invacare.com.
Hello, OIG?
Special fraud alert on telemarketing just doesn't make sense....
Better Business
Wallace Weeks is founder and president of Weeks Group Inc., a Melbourne, Fla.-based strategy consulting firm. He can be reached at 321/752-4514 or By e-mail at wweeks@weeksgroup.com.
Choose Your Own Terms
Managers choose the terms on which the want their business to compete....
Sales Notebook
Louis Feuer is president of Dynamic Seminars & Consulting Inc. and the founder and director of the DSC Teleconference Series, a teleconference training program. He can be reached at www.DynamicSeminars.com or by phone at 954/435-8182.
Move into Action
Make sure your 2010 to-do list doesn't turn into a 'didn't-do' list....
Accreditation Now
Mary Ellen Conway, RN, BSN, is president of Capital Healthcare Group, LLC, Bethesda, Md., which provides health care management expertise in accreditation preparation and survey follow-up, operations assistance, design of quality improvement programs and outcome measures. She can be contacted by phone at 301/896-0193 or through www.capitalhealthcaregroup.com.
Time Flies
Is it time to conduct your annual performance evaluations?...
Billing & Reimbursement
Jane Bunch is CEO and president of Jane's Healthcare Consulting based in Marietta, Ga. A reimbursement specialist, Bunch delivers educational seminars, helps develop corporate compliance plans and serves as a consultant for fraud and abuse cases. She can be reached at 770/366-0644 or by email at billhme@aol.com.
O2 Capped Rental
Understand the rules and prevent needless mistakes on oxygen claims....
Compliance University
Neil B. Caesar is president of the Health Law Center (Neil B. Caesar Law Associates, PA), a national health law practice in Greenville, S.C. He also is a principal with Caesar Cohen Ltd., which offers compliance training, outsourcing and consulting and the author of the Home Care Compliance Answer Book. He can be reached By e-mail at ncaesar@healthlawcenter.com or by telephone at 864/676-9075.
Keep the Closet Doors Open
But check these four observations....
Working Down Denials
Sarah Hanna is a reimbursement consultant and vice president of ECS Billing & Consulting, Tiffin, Ohio, and specializes in proper billing protocols, Medicare coverage guidelines and billing office procedures. She can be contacted at 419/448-5332 or sarahhanna@bright.net.
E0935 Continuous Passive Motion Exercise Device for Use on Knee Only
Data shows that the CPM has an overall denial rate of 32.7 percent for Medicare. The top denial reason code is CO50...
