tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2003 Issue 14

Quality Improvement: NEWSPAPER ADS COMPARING HHA OUTCOMES WEEKS AWAY

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will trumpet home health agency patient outcomes in a "significant number" of newspapers in eight states, CMS says, and affected agencies should use the next few weeks to prepare for the onslaught of public scrutiny. CMS hasn't determined exactly how many advertisements it will run, but at least two ads will appear in each state involved in the home health quality initiative, said Rob Sweezy, director of the CMS Office of Public Affairs, in a March 27 HHQI open door forum. Some pilot states will see more ads than others, Sweezy noted...

To read the full article, sign in and subscribe to tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement.


Keep pace with evolving Medicare regulations — and onboard your team — with timely analysis of critical updates interpreted in an easy-to-follow, easy-to-apply format. Your subscription to TCI's Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement Alert will equip you to navigate code and guideline changes, CCI edits, and revisions to modifiers, payer policies, the fee schedule, OIG target areas, and more.

  • Current newsletters added each month
  • Fully searchable archives - over 4200 articles
  • ALL years/issues back to 2003 organized by year and issue
  • Codes mentioned in articles are linked to Code Information pages
  • Code Information pages link back to related articles
Access to this feature is available in the following products:
  • tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement +Archives

demo
request yours today
 subscribe
start today
 newsletter
free subscription

Thank you for choosing Find-A-Code, please Sign In to remove ads.