Archives: 2024, March

Strategies for Navigating the Surge of Home Health Medical Reviews
By Melinda Gaboury / Posted on: March 26, 2024Home Health Medical Review is experiencing another surge, although not as significant as the escalation observed in hospice. Nevertheless, it’s proving to be a challenge for several home health agencies.


Jennifer Osburn Joins Healthcare Provider Solutions Team as Clinical Consultant
By Melinda Gaboury / Posted on: March 20, 2024Healthcare Provider Solutions (HPS), a leader in providing billing, coding, and clinical services to the home health and hospice industries for over 22 years has welcomed Jennifer Osburn to their team as a Clinical Consultant. Jennifer will be focusing on OASIS E & Coding education to home health agencies across the nation. In addition she will be available to agencies for operations and clinical case management consulting.


VBID Model Hospice Carve-In to End in December 2024
By Melinda Gaboury / Posted on: March 18, 2024The Value-Based Insurance Design (VBID) model has included a hospice carve-in since 2021. Shockingly, it has been announced within the VBID demonstration framework that the hospice carve-in will conclude on December 31, 2024.


Navigating the Playing Field – Part 2: Mastering the Game of Medicare Advantage
By Regina Wild / Posted on: March 11, 2024With Medicare Advantage on the rise how can your agency knock it out of the park and use it to your advantage? Before you run the bases it is important to know your opponent.


Understanding the Top Two Reasons for Hospice Medical Review Denials
By Melinda Gaboury / Posted on: March 4, 2024In today’s Monday Minute, Melinda discusses two of the most crucial causes for denial in hospice medical review and outlines proactive measures to avoid them. An increase in denials is occurring due to two very important hospice medical review topics – the Face-to-Face Encounter and the Certificate of Terminal Illness.
