Briggs Healthcare acquires Selman-Holman & Associates
Consulting acquisition bolsters compliance solutions for home health agencies and hospices and expands Briggs’ post-acute regulatory and clinical offerings On Nov. 9, 2018, Briggs Healthcare announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Selman-Holman & Associates. As a wholly owned subsidiary of Briggs, Selman-Holman will continue to expand its education and compliance solutions for the home health industry. …
Navigating that OASIS C2 Denial
As of April 1, 2017, Medicare began automatically denying claims with missing patient assessment data in the OASIS. Agencies are scratching their heads over the new denials. With some, they just plain messed up. The OASIS was not transmitted before the final claim for the episode was transmitted. With some, OASIS was submitted in time, but certain data was wrong …
Don’t be stumped with amputation stumps
Amputation coding seems to bring more confusion, and more potential gray areas, than most. There is the ongoing discussion about what code is correct for aftercare of surgery for amputation, and more recently, there has been a lot of discussion on what code works to indicate a complication of an amputation stump. The straight-up coding seems simple: The infected amputation …
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