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

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Every year, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) releases the Program for Evaluating Payment Patterns Electronic Report (PEPPER). 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.

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Innovations in Behavioral Healthcare: A Digital Path to Resilience

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In 2020, the American Psychiatric Association noted that? Several factors drove these concerns, such as licensing, Medicare/Medicaid?reimbursement, Medicaid beneficiaries use telehealth services. SoonerCare Medicaid program. The behavioral health sector is following suite. 85% of psychiatrists ?met a majority of?their