Home health agencies will soon have access to a new billing tool
Homecare E-News, March 30, 2015
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In July, CMS contractor TMF Health Quality Institute will release the first edition of the Program for Evaluating Payment Patterns Electronic Report (PEPPER) for the home health industry—a resource characterized by its unrivaled offering of free, comparative billing data in a growing number of settings along the care continuum.
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