Home Health Line
05/04/2015
Months after CMS revamped its face-to-face requirements, agencies have felt the effects — and many believe things are worse now than before. 
 
05/04/2015
Make sure your employee wellness program doesn’t offer incentives exceeding 30% of the total cost of employee-only insurance coverage. Otherwise your agency could essentially be making participation a requirement and wind up facing a costly lawsuit.
 
05/04/2015
Clinicians who find that two pressure ulcers have deteriorated so there is no longer any tissue separating the ulcers should stage the single ulcer at its worst stage when answering M1308 (Current number of unhealed pressure ulcers at each stage).
 
05/04/2015
Do your Home Health Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HHCAHPS) results published on Home Health Compare sometimes not match results HHCAHPS vendor survey results? Ever wonder why?
 
05/04/2015
The latest Senate Finance Committee look at the still-growing backlog of disputed Medicare claim denials showed that Congress is well aware of the problem for providers — and also has divergent opinions about how to fund the hearing magistrates and additional administrative law judges (ALJs) needed to shrink the pending cases.
 
05/04/2015
Make sure your agency is not leaving potentially thousands of dollars on the table by not billing for a therapy-only evaluation on Medicare claims.
 
05/04/2015
Home health agencies were affected more by face-to-face requirement changes than any other change within the 2015 PPS final rule, according to the 279 respondents to HHL’s Final Rule Impact Survey. About 54% of agencies said it was their top issue. 
 

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