This handy manual-updated to reflect 2010 changes-is a great resource for finding answers quickly and easily when you're stumped with a home health billing question. Spend less time looking for answers while receiving the most appropriate payment allowed. It's the perfect supplementary guide to your billing and payment procedures. Packed with examples, definitions, and calculations from CMS, this helpful guide also provides a quick billing reference for services and supplies, as well as tips when billing for non-routine supplies. In addition, it identifies what has changed and what has been eliminated since the start of the revised PPS. This convenient manual will help you: * Understand the general guidelines for processing home health agency (HHA) claims, such as where and how to bill * Report non-routine supplies on the claim * Use the Common Working File (CWF) for the PPS * Meet provider and supplier responsibilities regarding services subject to consolidated billing * Submit requests for anticipated payment (RAPs) and claims * Become adept at completing form CMS-1450 (UB-04) * Identify required quality data and the payment reduction for submission failure * Explore special billing situations involving OASIS assessments, multiple agencies, and more

CMS Publication 100-4 Chapter 10: CMS Home Health Billing Manual This handy manual--updated to reflect 2010 changes--is a great resource for finding answers quickly and easily when you're stumped with a home health billing question. Spend less time looking for answers while receiving the most appropriate payment allowed. It's the perfect supplementary guide to your billing and payment procedures. Packed with examples, definitions, and calculations from CMS, this helpful guide also provides a quick billing reference for services and supplies, as well as tips when billing for non-routine supplies. In addition, it identifies what has changed and what has been eliminated since the start of the revised PPS. This convenient manual will help you: Understand the general guidelines for processing home health agency (HHA) claims, such as where and how to bill Report non-routine supplies on the claim Use the Common Working File (CWF) for the PPS Meet provider and supplier responsibilities regarding services subject to consolidated billing Submit requests for anticipated payment (RAPs) and claims Become adept at completing form CMS-1450 (UB-04) Identify required quality data and the payment reduction for submission failure Explore special billing situations involving OASIS assessments, multiple agencies, and more

Make sure home health billing staff is well trained Home health care billing is a complicated task. Make sure that you are receiving all the payment you've earned, with accurate, compliant, and competent billing practices. The How-to Guide for Home Health Billing is your comprehensive guide to the many complex elements involved., helping you to provide the best training possible to billing staff and those who impact billing. You'll increase competence and confidence about billing requirements and practices. This book will help you: * Provide effective training for all billing staff, whether new to billing, or new to the home care system; along with tips for other agency staff such as therapists and nurses, who impact the billing process, on collaborating to ensure billing accuracy. * Focus on red flag areas and understand the complicated relationship between billing and coding/OASIS assessments. * The guide will give you the practical "nuts and bolts" education and information you need by taking difficult concepts and explaining them in an easy to understand way. * This step-by-step guide to billing not only covers Medicare, but also Medicaid and commercial insurance billing.

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