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

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Utilizing data from the most recent three calendar years, the PEPPER offers providers specific Medicare data statistics for discharges or services that may be vulnerable to improper payments. Long‐term acute care hospitals. Short-term acute care hospitals. Why should you read the PEPPER? Home health agencies.

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Why Care Coordination Is Important for Home Health and Hospice Agencies

Relias

Comprehensive education for home health staff is vital to boost performance under HHVBP, observed Relias Director of Post-Acute Care Solutions Trish Richardson, MSN, BSBA, RN, NE-BC, CMSRN. Hospices should also be concerned about care coordination. In broad terms, it’s care management through teamwork. Everyone had input.

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