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2022 Webinars

TAHCH Webinar Vaccination Mandates Wednesday, January 5, 2022 1 p.m. EST / Noon CST / 10:00 a.m. PST In July 2021, President Biden began rolling out vaccination mandates covering federal employees and contractors. At that time, President Biden also called on employers to implement their own vaccination mandates. Since that time, thousands of organizations around […]

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Christin Thompson

Christin Thompson is an Associate at Liles Parker. She focuses on healthcare compliance and reimbursement issues. Christin represents clients nationwide and practices out of the California office. She has experience in assessing client records for documentation compliance in private payor and CMS audit preparation as well as identifying and improving documentation deficiencies. Christin is also

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2021 Webinar

Wednesday, November 3, 2021 1 p.m. EST / Noon CST / 10:00 a.m. PST Using PEPPER to Assist You in Analyzing Your Home Health Claims Practices For several years now, CMS has been moving from a broad Probe and Educate program to a more targeted one. The Program for Evaluating Payment Patterns Electronic Report (PEPPER)

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2017 TAHCH Webinars

Wednesday, May 3, 2017 ADRs, Pre-Payment Reviews, Post-Payment Audits and Suspensions – The Impact of these Administrative Enforcement Tools on Home Health and Hospice Agencies Pre-payment reviews are now being conducted by both ZPICs and RACs. While the government has placed some restrictions on their use, contractors continue to exercise great latitude in their scope

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2019 TAHCH Webinar

Wednesday, November 6, 2019 The Importance of Incorporation and Asset Protection for Home Health and Hospice Agencies Unfortunately, sometimes even your best efforts are insufficient to keep an organization solvent. If your third-party billing company or your practice is forced into bankruptcy, can you be held liable? Are your personal assets at risk? What impact

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What is a Referral Under the Anti-Kickback Statute?

(January 26,  2021): Under the Anti-Kickback Statute (Anti-Kickback Statute), what constitutes a referral? Notably, neither the term referral nor the term referring (as it is referred to in the law) are defined in the statute. While you may be tempted to argue that a referral only occurs when one party refers a beneficiary to another party

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Ashley Morgan, J.D.

Ashley Morgan is a partner at Lliles Parker. She focuses her practice on regulatory health care compliance matters, fraud and abuse, and reimbursement issues. Ms. Morgan represents health care providers across the country in connection with a wide variety of health law issues including coverage disputes, documentation concerns, compliance, medical board complaints, and exclusion /

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OIG Exclusion Actions — Mandatory and Permissive Exclusion Authorities

The most severe administrative sanctions available under the Social Security Act stems from the authority of the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) [1] to “exclude” individuals and entities from participating in Federal health care programs. Indeed, an OIG Exclusion [2] imposed by the OIG is

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A UPIC Audit is Serious Business — Is Your Office Prepared?

(Updated December 2020): Of the many contractors working for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Unified Program Integrity Contractors (UPICs) are by far the serious financial threat to your practice, home health, hospice or DME company. A UPIC audit is serious business. Simply put, the UPIC program was intended to consolidate the work

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