Home Health Line
06/17/2013
New CMS guidance on what the hospital discharge process should look like could help prevent hospitals from steering patients to their own or other favored post-acute providers. The guidance is in the form of instructions to Medicare surveyors, who will use these revised conditions of participation to evaluate hospital discharges.
 
06/17/2013
The rapid increase in accountable care organizations (ACOs) is starting to take its toll in terms of lost referrals for independent home health agencies.
 
06/17/2013
In the HHL survey, 61.6% of the 181 respondents said they aren’t participating in an accountable care organization (ACO), but plan to do so.
 
06/17/2013
The data illustrate the challenges home health agencies face as more and more accountable care organizations (ACOs) emerge across the country.
 
06/17/2013
A payment change for early hospital discharges to hospice advocated by the HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) could lead to fewer and later hospice referrals. But whether or not the change happens, you can minimize the pain of late referrals by initiating or renegotiating contracts with local hospitals.
 
06/17/2013
Make sure your safe patient handling program is as effective as possible to prevent on-the-job injuries and resulting workers’ compensation claims or missed work hours.
 
06/17/2013
Follow this advice from Robert Markette, an attorney with Hall, Render, Killian, Heath & Lyman in Indianapolis, to reduce your agency’s liability risk in case a staff or patient injury does occur.
 
06/17/2013
CGS will become the second Medicare administrative contractor (MAC) to take an in-depth look at your agency’s face-to-face encounter documentation.
 
06/17/2013
The first ICD-10 grouper is expected to be released in February 2014.

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