tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2013 Issue 5

Home Health: Comply With Correction Time Frames To Avoid Harsher Punishment

Watch out for administrative hand holding by CMS disguised as “alternative sanctions.” If you are finding the host of new alternative sanctions scary, you had better clean up condition level deficiencies. Without clear-cut dollar amounts spelled out, you are in hot water. Worse, there is no guarantee of “temporary management” causing a return to compliance. Although we first learned about the new “alternative sanctions” for home health agencies with condition-level deficiencies back in November, most experts are just now beginning to understand what the sanctions really mean for HHAs. This is especially true of the...

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