Home Health Line
08/05/2013
Effective July 30, enrollment of startup home health agencies in Miami-Dade County and the Chicago metropolitan area will be suspended for at least six months, CMS announced just four days prior to the effective date.
08/05/2013
As of July 1, CMS gained the authority to issue new survey sanctions for agencies that received deficiencies due to staff performance issues. And those penalties can prove costly for home health agencies.
 
 
08/05/2013
Starting in 2014 hospices will be required to collect new line-item data on certain types of patient visits including post-mortem visits, on care provision outside the hospice that is billing for care, and on the use of prescription drugs and some medical devices, according to change request 8358 released on July 29.
08/05/2013
Adjust your marketing strategies to educate referral sources about ICD-10, and ensure they provide the level of detail you need to code correctly.
 
 
08/05/2013
The multifactor falls risk assessment process measure increased by two percentage points to 96% in CMS’ July 18 update to the Home Health Compare website.
 
 
08/05/2013
A growing number of states are hiring telephony vendors to help them find out whether patients actually received the number of visits that Medicaid paid for. For affected agencies, though, such monitoring often means extra work.
 
 
08/05/2013
The following table explains the new method that CMS is using to calculate certain process and improvement measures that appear on its Home Health Compare website starting with the July 18 update. Information in the table was supplied by Strategic Healthcare Programs (SHP) of Santa Barbara, Calif.http://See story for details.
08/05/2013
  Home health agencies continue to cite physicians (general and specialists) as their No. 1 referral sources.

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