Home Health Line
06/20/2016
Medicare Administrative Contractor (MAC) Palmetto GBA in June made another revision to a Local Coverage Determination (LCD) involving diabetic patients. Agencies now are recommended — not required — to provide frequent documentation for HbA1c tests for diabetic patients.
06/20/2016
Agencies in five states are about to begin a three-year Medicare pre-claim review demonstration that will require them to become more proactive when obtaining face-to-face documentation if they want to get paid.
06/20/2016
Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs) will have enough staff to be able to handle the thousands of additional home health claims they’ll need to review as a result of the pre-claim review demonstration set to take place in five states nationwide, CMS claimed during a June 14 open door forum.
06/20/2016
Growth in the percentage of beneficiaries covered by Medicare Advantage plans — 31% compared with 22% in 2008 and expected to reach 40% by 2026, according to the Congressional Budget Office — indicates the cost of accepting plan enrollees only will increase for home health providers.
06/20/2016
Assign L97.213 (Non-pressure chronic ulcer of right calf with necrosis of muscle) to capture the severity of a non-pressure ulcer, such as an arterial or stasis ulcer, only when there is evidence of muscle necrosis in the wound, according to the Coding Clinic.
06/20/2016
Discrimination against patients based on their sexual orientation, gender identity or whether they conform to “sex stereotypes” are all banned under a final rule HHS has released.
06/20/2016
Start auditing hospice charts now to ensure that clinicians are conducting and documenting the completion of a pain assessment.
06/20/2016
by: SHP
Hospices have shown significant improvement — particularly on pain assessment — when comparing the fourth quarter of 2015 with the fourth quarter of 2014, according to data from benchmarking company Strategic Healthcare Programs in Santa Barbara, Calif.
06/20/2016
In comments submitted May 26, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) supported the new quality measures CMS proposed in the 2017 hospice payment rule, published April 28.

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