Home Health Line
05/21/2012

Make sure your clinicians correctly complete functional items on the OASIS — mistakes can be a red flag for auditors and cost you earned reimbursement.

05/21/2012

The certifying physician must take ownership of face-to-face encounter documentation, even when a different physician completed it, CMS clarifies in new Q&As published May 4.

05/21/2012

Below, HHLhas condensed some of the key guidance in the new CMS face-to-face encounter Q&As, published May 4.

05/21/2012

Patient satisfaction surveys aren’t only for your Medicare patients. Use them for non-Medicare patients as well to make sure you’re capturing every patient’s level of satisfaction and reaping the referral benefits.

05/21/2012

Be careful when you turn down prospective employees based on a criminal record. New government guidance makes it clear that you could be opening your agency to a discrimination suit.

05/21/2012

CMS is giving you new advice on how to submit a successful reconsideration request if you face a 2% reduction to your payments in the following year.

05/21/2012

New data from OCS HomeCare in Seattle show what percentage of 2011 episodes garnered case-mix points for agencies on the M1800 items.

05/21/2012

Starting this fall, Medicare contractors will be able to hold claims for processing until they can confirm the HIPPS code is correct.

05/21/2012

Amedisys’ latest quarterly filing hints at a violation of the Stark law.

Review your files for any claims submitted between Oct. 1 and Dec. 31, 2011 with the new dementia codes 240.20 and 240.21.

05/21/2012

American-Mercy Home Care in Cincinnati used the following scenario to train clinicians on accurate completion of the M1800 items. The scenario was provided by Arlynn Hansell, the agency’s program manager, clinical excellence.

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