Compliance has been too often relegated to a mandatory all-staff lecture held in a conference room one day per year. It’s not exactly an event that Complex Rehab Technology (CRT) and home medical equipment (HME) teams look forward to … or perhaps think much about, after that meeting is over. But is that the best…
Rethinking Compliance: Creating a Culture of Communication, Education for CRT Businesses
Case Example: Challenging a Medicare Advantage Denial
Q&A with Noel Neil, JM, CDME, ACU-Serve Corp.
An all-too-common complaint about Medicare Advantage (MA) plans is that they either deny claims that traditional Medicare fee-for-service would have approved, or that they require equipment providers, clinicians and patients to take extra steps to qualify for equipment — additional hoops to jump through that traditional Medicare would not have required. Those additional MA steps…