Home Health Line
10/03/2016
Select a translation service if your agency hasn’t done so already. Such a service will help your agency better communicate patients’ rights and other information to patients and their caregivers in the event your clinicians don’t speak the same language as your patients.
10/03/2016
Agencies should act now to determine what languages they’ll need their patient rights forms translated into once the proposed home health Conditions of Participation (CoPs) are finalized. They’ll need to adapt their documents to meet the language needs of patients and caregivers.
10/03/2016
Want evidence CMS’ pre-claim review demonstration, in the name of fighting fraud, is penalizing honest home health agencies and panicking seniors? Consider what has happened in Illinois since pre-claim reviews began there Aug. 3, according to the Illinois HomeCare & Hospice Council.
10/03/2016
Medicare savings achieved so far by the Independence at Home demonstration have attracted Congressional support for legislation to use house calls teams to treat chronically ill seniors a permanent Medicare benefit.
10/03/2016
Administrators should use supervisory visits for nurses and therapists — in addition to aides — as a strategy for communicating clear expectations for staff. Such visits will ensure agency standards are met and patients are receiving high quality care.
10/03/2016
by: HHL’s Proposed CoPs Survey
Nearly 39% of the 220 respondents to a question on HHL’s Proposed CoPs Survey said they have hired an interpretive service (or already use one) due to the proposed patient rights Condition of Participation
10/03/2016
In a complete reversal from previous guidance, coders can now assign I11.0 (Hypertensive heart disease with heart failure) for a patient with diagnoses of hypertension and heart failure, regardless of whether the physician has linked the hypertension to the heart failure.
09/29/2016

Reps. James McGovern (D-Mass.) and Tom Price (R-Ga.) introduced a bill Sept. 28 that would impose a one-year moratorium on the pre-claim review demonstration that currently is roiling the home health industry in  Illinois. The bill would require CMS to report to Congress on the impact of the demo on patients, agencies, physicians and Medicare spending.

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