Home Health Line
04/29/2024
Agencies will want to update their cost report forms to account for one new field and one field that has been removed.
CMS released the updated form on April 29, 2024.
04/26/2024
CMS has updated its four-page “Original Medicare vs. Medicare Advantage” fact sheet to highlight home health payment requirements around a patient’s shift between fee-for-service and an MA plan.
04/25/2024
“How often the home health team determined whether patients received a flu shot for the current flu season” is down from 74% last April to 72.8% in the latest data. In April 2022, the agencies reporting that they had checked flu shot status was at 78.2%.
04/25/2024
Industry leaders have argued against the 80-20 rule, noting the other costs that the rule doesn’t account for and the potential that this will negatively impact access to home care services as some agencies are expected to close or exit the Medicaid program.
04/25/2024
Champion work-life balance and a better work environment to keep your best clinicians as a new study suggests a sharp increase in burnout among RNs and a reduced number of nurses in home health and hospice even as other settings see growth.
04/25/2024
If your EMR flags medications as being at risk for interactions, it doesn’t mean that you should capture that situation in the OASIS drug regimen review items under M2001.
04/25/2024
Hospice providers have to stay prepared for patients who live past their six-month lifespan, but they also need to make sure they’re in compliance with CMS and Medicare Administrative Contractor (MAC) regulations, as any significant length of stay is a target for audits.
04/25/2024
Come October, coders could have a way to capture a post-acute encounter for sepsis aftercare if the proposed code Z51.A (Encounter for sepsis aftercare) is finalized later this year.
04/25/2024
The latest National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses, released in March, found a net increase of 400,000 licensed RNs since the last national survey in 2018. But the total number of RNs in home health and hospice declined.
04/22/2024
The requirement that 80% of Medicaid payments for home care services go to workers’ wages will be effective six years after the effective date of the rule.
 

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