Author: Janet Lytton

Janet Lytton has lived in rural America all her life and resides on an acreage near Shelton, NE, with her husband, Gary. Janet Lytton has been in healthcare for over 27 years, starting with Rural Health Development. Janet is currently the Director of Reimbursement for RHD and HHS Solutions. Janet works with both provider based and independent rural health clinics across the United States. Janet is well known with the Medicare circuit and regularly gives workshops on billing, coding, and maximizing reimbursement for members of RHD and HHS Solutions. Janet also consults with Critical Access Hospitals and assists in their implementation. Janet assists in completing cost reports for numerous facilities to help ensure the maximum reimbursement from Medicare, Medicaid and Private Insurances.

23 Jan

New Medicare Cards

This new year brings many changes to our Medicare program. Everyone needs to be looking for and educating all your residents and families that Medicare will be issuing new Medicare cards beginning April 1, 2018. These new cards will not display any social security number as they will be a random number derived from the […]

10 Jan

No Therapy Cap Exception Policy or KX Modifiers

As of right now, there is no exception process for therapy billing when the patient is over the 2018 cap of $2010. This cap is for PT & ST combined, and then that amount for OT. Congress has not passed anything to allow any KX to be used on our claims. All must keep up […]