Home Health Line Breaking News
02/24/2022
We’re writing on behalf of the Association of Home Care Coding & Compliance (AHCC) and DecisionHealth to let you know that our dear friend and former Board of Medical Specialty Coding & Compliance board member Vonnie Purvis Blevins has passed away.
02/18/2022
The U.S. Department of Labor shows it is still targeting home health agencies in its enforcement of wage and hour rules.
02/18/2022
System errors with the new Notice of Admission (NOA) got all the attention in January, but Palmetto GBA is alerting providers to several user errors it’s seeing on submitted NOAs and related claims, particularly around late NOAs and exception requests.
02/16/2022
It’s not too late to recommend flu shots for your patients.
02/11/2022
CMS is creating a new CWF edit that no longer allows gaps of care to occur during a transfer.
02/09/2022
One way or another, CMS is promising states that it will enforce its recent interim final rule requiring hospital and other healthcare staff caring for COVID-19 patients to be fully vaccinated.
02/08/2022
02/07/2022
CMS expects surveyors to assess infection control and prevention through the standard survey process going forward.
02/04/2022
A new system issue with the Notice of Admission (NOA) is incorrectly assigning reason code U537F on some NOAs due to the common working file not correctly recognizing discharges.
02/03/2022
Insomnia due to work stress can further exacerbate nurses' anxiety and depression, new study says.

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