Home Health Line
03/21/2016
About 1,900 new diagnosis codes, 313 code deletions and 351 revised codes are expected with the upcoming first regular update to ICD-10, which will take effect on Oct. 1, 2016.
03/21/2016
The demonstration involving mandatory bundled Medicare payments to some 800 hospitals for hip and knee replacements promises to be a major opportunity — and a major challenge — for home health agencies in the 67 metro areas CMS chose for the test.
03/21/2016
About 40% of respondents to a new HHL survey say their clinicians suffered a productivity decrease as a direct result of ICD-10. But there are many steps agencies can take to improve clinicians’ productivity despite the additional level of detail required after Oct. 1, 2015.
03/21/2016
Keep an eye out for issues arising since CMS changed its payment structure for hospices this year. Contact your Medicare Administrative Contractor (MAC) if you see payments your hospice receives are incorrect.
03/21/2016
Protect yourself and your agency by taking action if an employee steals or harms colleagues or patients or otherwise provides “cause for immediate termination.”
03/21/2016
by: HHL's ICD-10 Impact Survey
About 40% of agencies suffered a clinician productivity decrease due to ICD-10, according to the 161 respondents to a question on HHL’s ICD-10 Impact Survey.
03/21/2016
Healthy Medicare profit margins of home health agencies and hospices justify omission of an inflation update for them in 2017, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) says in its latest annual report to Congress.
03/21/2016
by: OCS, now part of ABILITY Network Inc.
The actual reimbursement for home health agencies for PPS episodes in the fourth quarter of 2015 was $3,080. That’s $24 more than for episodes in the prior quarter.
03/21/2016
by: OCS HomeCare, now part of ABILITY Network Inc.
Nationwide, 38% of agencies that received star ratings for patients’ experiences of care provided had a rating of 5. But in Miami, 76% of agencies that received star ratings had a rating of 5, according to an analysis from Seattle-based OCS HomeCare, now part of ABILITY Network Inc.

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