Home Health Line
12/12/2016
New data show agencies continue to struggle with coding congestive heart failure (CHF) under ICD-10. And that’s a major concern because use of the unspecified code associated with heart failure — a common primary diagnosis in home health — could lead to additional documentation requests and ultimately denials.
12/12/2016
Educate nurses about how to conduct a fire safety risk assessment in patients’ homes, and include that skill within the list of annual nursing competencies.
12/12/2016
Two-way communication and completion of the prescribed/recommended action must occur by midnight of the next calendar day after the potential clinically significant medication issue was identified to answer “1 — Yes-Issues found during review” in M2001 (Drug regimen review).
12/12/2016
Coast to coast, high profile hacks of health care computer systems have highlighted the unfortunate reality that ransomware attacks on health care providers are no longer isolated events.
12/12/2016
Closely examine new CMS guidance explaining what complete, written certifications from physicians must include. Also, review your hospice’s election statement and ensure it includes the information CMS provided within a new sample statement.
12/12/2016
Agencies have improved the way they code strokes under ICD-10, newly released data show.
12/12/2016
A new change request from CMS seeks to resolve a problem that has caused many hospices to be slammed with thousands of dollars in lost revenue.
12/12/2016
by: Minneapolis-based ABILITY Network, Inc.
I50.- (Heart failure) is the second most common primary diagnosis home health agencies use under ICD-10, according to first and second quarter 2016 data from Minneapolis-based ABILITY Network. Roughly half the time agencies use I50.-, they use a 9 in the fourth position.
12/12/2016
by: CMS
View a sample hospice election statement.
11/29/2016
by: CMS
View examples CMS has provided hospices of the narrative for a physician certification.

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