Category Archives: Billing

Medicare ANSI 5010 Billing – Physician PECIS Denial N272

Several agencies have received notifications that they have submitted recent claims that after May 1, 2013 will be denied because of problems with the physician submitted on the claim compared to the PECOS file.  Below are the changes to the … Continue reading

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Admission & Discharge Reports

Several admission and discharge reports have been changed to improved performance.

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PECOS

A new PECOS file has been made available for download.

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30 Day Therapy Due

The OASIS Alerts report has been changed to include 30 day therapy due assessments.  The PPS Therapy Status report has been changed to allow the user to only display assessments where the 30 day therapy assessments are due for a … Continue reading

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Medicare ANSI Remittance & Claim Status Files

Medicare has made a very minor change to the format of their ANSI files that you download for posting remittances and printing claim status reports.  Because of the change HHC3000 was no longer able to read the files.  Printed remittance … Continue reading

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Therapy Counts

We have made changes to the Patient Cert Period Ledger, PPS Billing Summary, and PPS Therapy Status Reports.  These changes were made to exclude non-covered visits in the counts to determine the 13th and 19th visits and to also indicate … Continue reading

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Medicare New Location Codes

Medicare has announced that as of 7/1/2013, in PPS billing they want to capture the location where the home health services are performed using HCPCS codes Q5001, Q5002, Q5009.  As we read the requirements, we understand them to mean that … Continue reading

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HIPPS Code Calculation Change

A change was made in version 5186 to the OASIS HIPPS calculation to allow the 1st secondary diagnosis code (M1022 b.)  to be scored as primary if the preceding diagnosis code (M1020 a.)  is a non-case mix ‘V’ code and … Continue reading

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Hospice NQF 0209 Pain Tracking

Under the patient insurance tab there are new fields to help you record and track pain associated with Hospice patients.  In addition a new communication note type, ‘Hospice NQF 0209 Pain” has been added to the communication note.  We plan … Continue reading

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Electronic Remittances

If you are having problems getting your electronic remittances to post, you will need to get version 5183 or higher.  We made some changes recently, for a couple of agencies to help electronically post remittances for insurance companies that have … Continue reading

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