Home Health Line
06/21/2010

Home health agency owners should prepare for increased opportunities to sell their agencies as the economy starts to improve and interest in home health picks up.

06/21/2010

Agencies might dodge the recovery audit contractor (RAC) bullet, but they may remain in the line of fire of other post-payment reviewers.

06/21/2010

Will your clinicians and coders need to learn a new ICD-9-CM code set in fiscal year 2013 as well as preparing for the transition to ICD-10-CM/PCS?

06/21/2010
Don’t rely on PECOS to get physicians’ NPIs. An independent investigation completed by the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) has revealed that as many as 40% of all
06/21/2010

Nearly 13% of the 2,663 surveys in 2009 contained citations for violating G0145 (failure to provide a written report for each patient to an attending physician every 62 days). This tool is designed to help agencies get that summary from physicians within the required time.

06/21/2010
Patients with diabetes mellitus (250) as their primary diagnosis make up 11.8% of all home health episodes. Below is a breakdown of the top secondary diagnoses that accompanied that code.

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