Home Health Line
06/29/2015
Don’t believe everything you hear when it comes to ICD-10. Rumors and misconceptions abound about the new coding system and how it will impact home health.
 
06/29/2015
Invest in making your agency’s website mobile friendly. Doing so will stop your agency from plummeting in Google’s search rankings on mobile devices, and it also will keep visitors on your website longer. 
 
06/29/2015
The probe-and-educate review CMS plans to conduct in the coming months will involve a small sample of claims for every home health agency and will result in claims denials as well as educational outreach, CMS tells HHL.
 
 
06/29/2015
CMS has clarified the definitions of hospice admission and discharge in order to help hospices understand when to complete and submit the Hospice Item Set (HIS).
 
 
06/29/2015
CMS recently provided guidance to hospices about how to conduct separate patient satisfaction surveys in addition to the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) Hospice Survey.
 
 
06/29/2015
Private duty agencies that contract with Medicaid to provide home support services for beneficiaries soon may be saddled with a requirement for fingerprint-based background checks.
 
 
06/29/2015
A new, comprehensive falls prevention intervention developed and studied at the behest of the Department of Health and Human Services between 2008 and 2012 was found to have reduced falls risk by 11% in the first year following the intervention.
06/29/2015
Congress appears poised to let the ICD-10 code set take effect Oct. 1, despite legislation that would introduce grace periods for providers.
 
 
06/29/2015
by: National Research Corporation, Seattle
Agencies planning to rely upon the general equivalency mappings (GEMs) could wind up costing themselves a lot of money in ICD-10.
 
 
06/29/2015
by: Trish Twombly
Use this ICD-10 readiness checklist to prepare for the new code set.

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