TAIPEI, Taiwan (Feb. 24, 2014)—Apex Medical Corporation, a leading player in the respiratory therapy and pressure area care sectors, announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) agreed on Feb.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (Feb. 17, 2014)—Home medical equipment (HME) providers, hospitals, physicians, hospice and home health agencies have been assaulted by unprecedented numbers of audits.
The latest numbers from recovery audit contractor (RAC) publications show that in the first quarter of fiscal year 2013, RACs collected $744.8 million in overpayments.
In a recent Office of Medicare Hearings and Appeals (OMHA) forum on the overwhelming administrative law judge (ALJ) appeal backlog, AAHomecare’s Tom Ryan and Jay Witter listened to Chief Judge Nancy Griswold and others from CMS discuss the situation and their proposed solutions.
WASHINGTON (Feb. 20, 2014)—AAHomecare’s Regulatory Council recently submitted two letters to the General Counsel at CMS. Both letters are related to continued confusion caused by CMS’s guidance on the face-to-face encounter requirement.
The first letter focused on an inconsistency between the unambiguous language requiring a face-to-face encounter written by Congress and CMS’s implementing guidance.