Provider Strategy
With audits and decreasing reimbursement levels diverting your attention, it can seem more and more difficult to keep the focus on providing the best in patient care, but there are things you can do and products you can add to your “fleet” that will improve your business while enhancing patient care.
- By Brian LaDuke
- Oct 01, 2013
Kelly Grahovac joins audit, compliance consulting firm after a decade with Medicare contractor.
- By David Kopf
- Jun 06, 2013
The 2013 HME Handbook: Audits
After soliciting stakeholders’ input a new report from committee summarizes their concerns.
- By Michael Reinemer
- May 02, 2013
Jane Naig, RN, CFE, AHFI, joins audit consulting firm as senior clinical consultant.
- By David Kopf
- May 02, 2013
Secretary Sebelius launches proposed rule to boost reward payout for reporting acts of Medicare fraud.
- By David Kopf
- Apr 25, 2013
Industry Newsmaker
Wayne van Halem applies 11 years’ experience at Medicare to give providers audit assistance. Getting there has been an interesting journey.
- By David Kopf
- Apr 04, 2013
Business Solutions
As providers continue to find themselves swimming in a sea of post- and pre-payment Medicare audits, they know flawless documentation is their best life line. What are the key ways they can implement strong documentation?
- By Cindy Horbrook
- Apr 01, 2013
After underpayments and costs, only $488 million goes to trust fund; DME overpayments account for less than 5% of overpayments.
- By David Kopf
- Feb 07, 2013
Observation Deck
In many cases, especially for power mobility devices (PMDs), a provider may not know whether a file meets all of the requirements until an audit occurs, due in part to the subjectivity of medical necessity documentation review.
- By Paul Komishock
- Feb 01, 2013
Accountability office meets with association to ask various questions regarding post-payment audit cocnerns.
- By David Kopf
- Jan 17, 2013
Problem Solvers
Increased funding and more Medicare claims processors could mean more audits for 2013. How should HMEs prepare?
- By Cindy Horbrook
- Jan 01, 2013
Audit consulting firm will help OGPA members in audits, compliance, appeals.
- By David Kopf
- Nov 29, 2012
Providers will be able to electronic respond to auditors’ documentation requests.
- By David Kopf
- Nov 08, 2012
Agency to tell contractors to suspend audits for providers affected by Sandy.
- By David Kopf
- Nov 08, 2012
Industry Roundtable
The coming year promises a rough ride for the industry. Providers face many issues: competitive bidding Round Two; the fight to replace it with the MPP; the continued assault of pre- and post-payment audits; the pending face-to-face rule; and pior authorization for power mobility to name just a few. HMEB’s editorial advisory board discuss these issues and more and share their insights on how providers should approach 2013.
- By David Kopf
- Oct 10, 2012
Audits
Although the denial rate may be improving, oxygen audits continue to challenge and frustrate providers. How can providers become oxygen audit ready?
- By Joseph Duffy
- Oct 01, 2012
VGM, providers, law firm submit document that informs Finance Committee of key problems with audit structure and their solutions.
- By David Kopf
- Jul 18, 2012
Leading Sens. and Reps. call for an examination into ‘duplicative efforts’ of Medicare audit contractors.
- By David Kopf
- Jun 28, 2012
House subcommittee chair blasts CMS for ‘incompetence’ in audit oversight.
- By David Kopf
- Jun 13, 2012