coding
A look at CMS’s recommendations for providers
SHOREVIEW, Minn. (April 11, 2019)—Maxwell Healthcare Associates (MHA), a home health and hospice consulting firm, announced tremendous company growth led by tripling its year-over-year top-line performance. In the last year MHA doubled its customer base, more than tripled its consultant count, added new partners and broadened its service lines.
How to know if outsourcing is a fit for your agency
Freeing up staff time from OASIS coding can save time, money, and prevent costly mistakes
DALLAS, Texas and DETROIT, Mich. (February 6, 2019)—Home health care technology provider Axxess is offering its clients additional coding and OASIS documentation solutions through a new partnership with Gateway Home Health Coding and Consulting, LLC.
SHOREVIEW Minn. and MADISON HEIGHTS, Mich. (August 14, 2018)—Maxwell Healthcare Associates (MHA), a post-acute operational, financial, technological, clinical and regulatory consulting firm and Gateway Coding and Consulting (Gateway), a home health and hospice coding, recovery and appeals company, today announced their alliance.
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (July 16, 2018)—Bonafide Management Systems announced optical character recognition (OCR) functionality. This technology allows customers to efficiently and instantly search scanned documents on the Bonafide system. OCR is included at no additional charge to Bonafide customers.
Effective date of August 1 give providers time to adapt.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (May 14, 2018)—Effective August 1, 2018, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will require suppliers to use KX, GA, GY and GZ modifiers on oxygen claims. The KX modifier will indicate when payment criteria is met, and the GA, GY and GZ modifiers provide more information for oxygen claims that do not meet payment criteria.
SAN DIEGO (February 26, 2018)—DME Data Solutions announced the launch of a new software application designed to prevent administrative errors in a health care environment.
Use objective metrics to provide training for better delivery results
LENEXA, Kan. (July 21, 2016)—Mediware Information Systems, Inc. is hosting a free webinar for attendees on Tuesday, August 16, 2016, at 2 p.m. EST, 1 p.m. CST to discuss how you can secure reimbursement that hinges on the KX modifier. The webinar is titled “Solving the KX Modifier Puzzle: Secure Your DME Reimbursements with Compliant Documentation,” presented by Andrea Stark, reimbursement expert at MiraVista, LLC.
NEW YORK (June 2, 2016)—QIRT (Quality In Real Time), provider of home health and hospice coding, consulting, billing and education services, announced today that A.D. Maxim and its subsidiary, CQI Coding and Quality Improvement, Inc., have joined QIRT. A.D.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (April 7, 2016)—Recently, the American Association of Respiratory Care, the American College of Chest Physicians and the National Association for Medical Direction of Respiratory Care submitted a reconsideration of the current Medicare National Coverage Determination for home ventilators, including bi-level devices to CMS.
Addressing the Advance Beneficiary Notice of Noncoverage under competitive bidding
Doug Harrison, CEO of The Scooter Store, resigned from the company he founded.
A March 22 statement from the company said Harrison resigned to “pursue other interests.” J. Randall Bishop, a Scooter Store director, has been appointed interim CEO. He said in the statement that the company's board and Harrison “decided that this is the right time to make a leadership change.”