Home Health Line
09/03/2012

CMS made it official with a final rule published Aug. 24: ICD-10 won’t take effect until Oct. 1, 2014, exactly one year later than the previous compliance deadline.

09/03/2012

Want more referrals? One Florida agency is negotiating an agreement with a “regional physician group” to be the group’s “home health agency of choice for patients in need of home health services.”

09/03/2012

Details of Home Health International’s physician agreement aside, another question is the agency’s physical location.

09/03/2012

An in-depth analysis of the daily workload for each coder has helped CHRISTUS Home Care in San Antonio eliminate one full-time equivalent (FTE) staff position from the department and create a solid baseline from which to judge staff performance.

09/03/2012

Reduce your spending on wound care procedures by getting physicians to support a low-frequency formulary that maintains the quality of care at a lower cost.

09/03/2012

Treating patients for varicose veins and “other” codes for surgical complications, skin disorders and lung disease will drain your agency’s profits, according to recent data from OCS HomeCare in Seattle. Those four codes, along with acute pulmonary heart disease, round out the five least profitable diagnoses treated in home health.

09/03/2012

The final rule which delayed ICD-10 until 2014 also finalized a CMS proposal for a standard health plan identifier.

09/03/2012

Use this tracking log from CHRISTUS Home Care in San Antonio to determine how many records coders and auditors complete each month.

09/03/2012

The data below show the average daily number of records completed by coders at CHRISTUS Home Care in San Antonio in November 2011.

Login

User Name:
Password: