Home Health Line
04/13/2015
Examine your preadmission screening questions — and the questions you address during recertifications — to ensure that diabetic patients truly need help with insulin injections. Doing so and documenting answers to those questions will allow your agency to avoid costly denials.
 
04/13/2015
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.
 
04/13/2015
Have your agency’s marketers or liaisons ask contacts at hospital orthopedic departments about bathing and pain management for patients who’ve had hip or knee replacements.
 
04/13/2015
Many hospices have been slammed with thousands of dollars in lost revenue as a direct result of the Oct. 1 requirement that Medicare contractors must receive hospice patients’ notices of election (NOE) within the first five days for hospices to get paid for those days.
 
04/13/2015
CMS is seeking the Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) approval for the ICD-10 version of the OASIS-C1 form.
 
04/13/2015
CMS and its contractors are working with the Fiscal Intermediary Standard System (FISS) to resolve an issue causing more than 1,300 home health claims and adjustments to have possibly been denied improperly.
 
04/13/2015
by: National Research Corporation
The data below show the average readmission rates within 30 days of home health admission for the five diagnoses that trigger hospital readmission penalties.
 

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