Home Health Line Breaking News
04/22/2024
The requirement that 80% of Medicaid payments for home care services go to workers’ wages will be effective six years after the effective date of the rule.
 
04/21/2024
Experts say that most of these denials traditionally have been due to the physician certification and signature requirements.
04/16/2024
A recent CMS change request is addressing an issue on home health claims identified by the OIG, along with a handful of updates to the Claims Processing Manual Chapter 10.  
04/16/2024
A fall that occurs due to a medical event, such as a seizure, is considered a fall for the purposes of coding M1033 (Risk for Hospitalization), J1800 (Any fall since SOC/ROC) and J1900 (Number of falls since SOC/ROC), CMS clarified in the April 2024 quarterly OASIS Q&As — released April 16. 
04/10/2024
The proposed ICD-10 code changes — released with the FY2025 Hospital Inpatient PPS (IPPS) proposed rule on April 10 –   include three new codes to better track the severity of patients with hypoglycemia.
04/09/2024
The Joint Commission has released its top five most challenging requirements for 2023 for home health care organizations.
04/08/2024
Massachusetts prosecutors have announced the indictment of four individuals related to “a wide-spread personal care attendant and home health Medicaid fraud scheme.”
04/05/2024
Home health care services now account for nearly 1.725 million jobs.
04/01/2024
CMS is cleaning up survey guidance around home health agencies this week after the release March 16 of updated guidance for state surveyors.
03/29/2024
After face-to-face encounter documentation caused 480 claim denials under medical review in the last three months of 2023, Palmetto GBA is reminding agencies of the requirements and how to avoid these denials.

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