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Hospice Billing Compliance: The Latest PEPPER Updates

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The Program for Evaluating Payment Patterns Electronic Report, or PEPPER, contains valuable information to help your hospice organization identify billing issues and prevent improper payment audits. The provider-specific PEPPER analyzes Medicare data and statistics from discharges and services compared with every hospice nationwide.

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Palliative Care: Social Workers Help Ensure Patients Have Access, Find Satisfaction

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For example, the Veterans Health Administration published a study in January of this year that analyzed the records of 43,200 veterans receiving care through a Veterans Affairs health care site.

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Grow Your Own Home Health Aides To Capture New Business

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Demand for home healthcare continues to rise, and at the same time home health aide staffing remains an ongoing challenge for agency administrators. In terms of home care aides, the 2020 turnover rate reached 36.5%, according to highlights from a salary report by the National Association for Home Care and Hospice and its survey partner.

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Palliative Care: Social Workers Help Ensure Patients Have Access, Find Satisfaction

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For example, the Veterans Health Administration published a study in January of this year that analyzed the records of 43,200 veterans receiving care through a Veterans Affairs health care site.

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Post-Acute Care Training Promotes Employees as an Asset

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Administrators are in a position to recognize their staff’s value and foster a work environment that attracts employees and keeps them coming back. It is probably no surprise to you that your post-acute care (PAC) organization’s biggest asset is its employees.

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Understanding the PEPPER Can Reduce Home Health and Skilled Nursing Audit Risks

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The PEPPER gives your organization a snapshot of your case mix, coding, and billing practices and compares you to other providers in the nation, Medicare Administrative Contractor jurisdiction, and state. This report can help organizations identify potential overpayments as well as potential underpayments. Home health agencies.

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Importance of Image and Respect for Home Health Recruitment and Retention

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The increased pressure of the COVID-19 pandemic has presented never-before-seen growth opportunities for home health agencies and their workforce, as Bill Dombi, President of the National Association of Home Care and Hospice (NAHC), noted in a December 2021 webinar titled The State of Home Health.