Home Health Line
08/18/2014
A select group of 2,550 providers, including home health agencies, will participate in end-to-end ICD-10 testing starting in January. And all agencies will have the chance to submit claims with ICD-10 codes to their intermediaries to test whether those claims can be submitted, CMS announced July 31.
 
08/18/2014
Attention home health marketers: Jan. 1, 2015 will bring a new Medicare payment to physicians for managing the care of chronically ill beneficiaries. Educating physicians about the details could be just as much of an opportunity to promote your agency as Medicare’s long-established certification, recertification and care plan oversight payments, consultants say.
 
08/18/2014
Agencies may have to hire more therapists to comply with the therapy reassessment requirements in CMS’ 2015 proposed home health rule.
 
08/18/2014
Join forces with a private duty agency, a skilled nursing facility and a hospice to educate the faith-based community about your services and watch your number of referrals grow.
 
 
08/18/2014
Recent revisions to The Joint Commission’s National Patient Safety Goal (NPSG) on home oxygen safety mean your agency needs to revisit its policies and protocols or risk possible citations.
 
 
08/18/2014
More than one third of the 262 respondents to a therapy reassessment question in HHL’s 2015 proposed rule survey plan to perform more reassessments per episode in response to the proposed therapy reassessment change.
 

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