Benchmarks
04/18/2024
Most home health coders are tackling more than 10 charts a day, according to the results of DecisionHealth’s 2024 Home Health Coders’ Productivity Survey.
04/11/2024
The proposed hospice rate update percentage for fiscal year 2025 is 2.6%, an estimated increase of $705 million from fiscal year 2024.
04/04/2024
Home health aide visits have declined more than 32% over the first three years of PDGM. That’s more than twice the decrease in the total
number of visits in a 30-day period.
03/28/2024
Medicare fee-for-service margins for freestanding home health agencies dropped year-over-year, but was still higher than 20%, according to analysis by MedPAC looking at Medicare home health cost reports.
03/21/2024
Aftercare following joint replacement surgery was the top primary for traditional Medicare 30-day periods.
03/14/2024
Agencies continue to get tripped up on documentation requirements in pre-payment reviews.
03/07/2024
We’re looking for national benchmark for days from discharge to final claim. We also want to know if there is a benchmark or tolerance level for unsigned orders over 14 days?
03/07/2024
Responses to “How often patients got better at taking their drugs correctly by mouth” have improved, according to the latest data from CMS’ Care Compare, published in January.
02/29/2024
With one year into OASIS-E, the new Transfer of Health (TOH) process measure scores are trending upward.
02/22/2024
by: DecisionHealth Staff
Terminal diagnosis tops list of denials for new hospices One of the most frequent denial reason for new hospices under pre-payment review is “Documenation submitted doesn’t support prognosis of six months or less.” That’s according to the Palmetto GBA’s medical review results from July to September 2023. They looked at 52 hospice providers from six states: Florida, Georgia, Indiana, New Mexico, Ohio and South Carolina.

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