Home Health Line
04/21/2014
Expect more scrutiny of face-to-face documentation as supplemental medical review contractor (SMRC) StrategicHealthSolutions LLC will look at approximately five claims from every agency nationwide in an effort to create more consistent audits among CMS contractors.
 
 
04/21/2014
Hospices should provide “a coherent clinical explanation” about why the drug is unrelated to the patients’ terminal condition to get paid by Part D starting May 1.
 
 
04/21/2014
As agencies wait for CMS to issue more guidance, they are reevaluating their priorities and training timelines as a result of the one-year ICD-10 delay.
 
 
04/21/2014
Agencies will have the chance to work with nursing homes and physicians’ practices to meet the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) goal of preventing one million heart attacks and strokes by 2017.
 
 
04/21/2014
Agencies across the country are finding that “self-adaptive” dressings, open-celled foam dressings and moisture vapor permeable dressings are a good way to improve outcomes, increase nursing productivity and save money.
 
 
04/21/2014
Additional documentation requests and denials caused by face-to-face documentation issues are the top worry for nearly 58% of the 208 respondents to HHL's ICD-10 Delay Survey. Twenty percent of respondents say OASIS-C1 is their top concern. 
04/21/2014
Most agencies have spent less than $5,000 to prepare for ICD-10, and most plan to spend less than $5,000 more to prepare, HHL’s ICD-10 Delay Survey shows.

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