HFS News & Information

HFS received CMS approval for T.20 on 9/17/2009.
See Pete Harmon’s blog for details…

Just a reminder…Our User Meeting will be on Thursday October 22, 2009 and Friday October 23, 2009 in Las Vegas. The first day of our meeting will focus on Hospital and Home Health Agency current issues, particularly the new 2552-10 for hospitals. The second day of our meeting will be spent going through the HFS software and its productivity features. This link will take you to our User Meeting Flyer with more information: http://www.hfssoft.com/um/2009/HFS-2009UserMeetingFlyer.pdf

Our room block with the Westin Casuarina expires on September 21st.  It is almost full, so make your reservations soon to receive the room rate of $135. You can call the hotel at (866)837-4215 or make your reservations on their website http://www.starwoodmeeting.com/StarGroupsWeb/booking/reservation?id=0907172622&key=CC459.

If you plan to attend and have not already done so, please return your registration form to us with payment as soon as possible. http://www.hfssoft.com/um/2009/UserMtgReg.pdf

The agendas have been updated at the following links:

• Hospital User Meeting Agenda – http://www.hfssoft.com/um/2009/UserMeetingAgenda1.pdf
• Home Health Agency Agenda – http://www.hfssoft.com/um/2009/UserMeetingAgenda2.pdf

If you have any questions e-mail or call us.

On Friday, August 28, 2009 we sent additional HFS comments on the Draft 2552-10 to CMS. These additional comments were the result of having input numbers into the forms. These comments are available in PDF format: MORE HFS DRAFT 2552-10 COMMENTS

In general, we were disappointed that Title V and XIX are less accommodated in the 2552-10, instead of expanded, or left the same as in the 2552-96 (i.e. elimination of W/S C part II, which is still used by States; elimination of D-1 lines 66-82 in the 2552-96 for the per diem calculation, etc.). This will most likely result…

This spreadsheet contains a crosswalk comparison between the 2552-96 and 2552-10 form sets for worksheets A and S-2, including the new S-2 Part II.

As part of a national effort to raise the awareness of the importance of a complete and accurate Medicare Cost Report, HFS is part of a committee with the National Association of Home Care and Hospice (NAHC). We are trying to get this message out to all HHA cost report preparers, by distributing a news release published by NAHC in July 2009.

If CMS rebases the HHA rates, it will be the cost report that is used for the information. Thus, the more complete and accurate the information, the more likely accurate rates will be determined.

Please read the NAHC news release and share it with any HHA cost report preparer you may know. If you have any questions about this, please contact Pete Harmon, at (916)686-8152, or pete@hfssoft.com.

Come join us for our annual HFS User’s Meeting. This meeting is for Health Financial Systems clients who prepare or review Medicare Cost Reports. Here we will introduce new software features, relay updated Medicare information and review current software functions.

• Registration Form
• Hospital Agenda
• Home Health Agency Agenda

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