Home Health Line
07/27/2015
by: CMS
The following are the proposed areas included in the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement model for hospitals.
07/27/2015
As the public can now view your agency’s 5-star rating made available on Home Health Compare July 16, make sure your patients and referral sources understand what the stars represent.
 
07/27/2015
A major hospital initiative CMS announced July 9 involving hip and knee replacement patients will serve as another opportunity for home health agencies to present quality and cost data to bolster relationships with potential referral sources. 
 
07/27/2015
You won’t get any case-mix points for common diagnoses like COPD and dementia in ICD-10. 
 
07/27/2015
Educate your hospice patients and their loved ones multiple times about potential medication side effects. Doing so could prevent a hospital visit and it also will help your hospice improve on one of the lowest scoring items on the Hospice CAHPS Survey.
 
07/27/2015
Agencies can, beginning July 20, access a free tool from quality improvement organization TMF Health Quality Institute that will help them address their risks for overpayment from Medicare, according to the TMF website.
 
07/27/2015
Medicare administrative contractor CGS recently outlined an ongoing issue related to home health final claims and adjustments within the Fiscal Intermediary Standard System (FISS), as well as the resolution of two issues that had been leading to incorrect denials or claims rejections.
 
07/27/2015
CMS has selected 141 Medicare-certified hospices to participate in the Medicare Care Choices Model.
 
07/27/2015
The Joint Commission accreditation body will require, as of July 1, that home health agencies and hospices provide documentation on deemed status surveys of Hospice Quality Reporting Program (HQRP)/Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement (QAPI) reports for the past quarter for an initial survey
— or the past year for re-survey.
07/27/2015
On July 16, CMS released its first star ratings for home health agencies on Home Health Compare. Below is a list of the number of agencies that fell into each of the rating categories, with a rating of 5 being the best. The data was provided by Kaiser Health News. 

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