Home Health Line
03/02/2015
Make sure the person responsible for overseeing your agency’s responses to additional documentation requests (ADRs) writes a summary of each patient’s episode that includes the reasons for homebound status and medical necessity. 
 
03/02/2015
Make sure your agency has a process in place to ensure therapists closely examine specific patient information such as whether an orthopedic surgeon performed an anterior or posterior hip replacement surgery, to help them gain a complete view of a patient’s range of motion or weight-bearing restrictions.
 
03/02/2015
Days after some members of a key House subcommittee broached the idea of allowing extended use of both ICD-9 and ICD-10, CMS said that simply wouldn’t work.
 
03/02/2015
Once your hospice patient’s symptoms stabilize — or pain is managed — stop providing the general inpatient (GIP) level of care and return the patient to a routine level of care. Doing so can help your hospice avoid costly denials.
 
03/02/2015
Use John Hancock’s free cost of care calculator to determine the average cost of private duty care in your community. 
 
03/02/2015
by: Palmetto GBA
Medicare administrative contractor (MAC) Palmetto GBA issued 225 denials to hospices from October through December 2014, with nearly half coming for two reasons: Patients weren’t hospice appropriate or general inpatient services were not reasonable and necessary.
 
03/02/2015
About 81% of claims received during CMS’ first-ever ICD-10 end-to-end testing week were found acceptable by Medicare contractors, CMS announced Feb. 25.
 
 
03/02/2015
Agencies will soon have to submit quality data to CMS in a standardized fashion with other post-acute care providers as mandated by the Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation (IMPACT) Act of 2014.
 
02/26/2015
by: Home Care Pulse
The median billing rate for a one-to two-hour visit from a private duty agency was $25 an hour in 2013, while the median billing rate for visits running from 12 to 24 hours was $20 an hour.

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