Home Health Line
08/12/2013
CMS has finalized new hospice data reporting requirements, which will require extra time to collect information from pharmacies, work with vendors to update systems and take precautions to prevent cash flow interruptions.
 
 
08/12/2013
Home health consultants and agency owners are reporting an increase in additional documentation requests (ADRs) related to face-to-face documentation. And depending on agency size there could be as much as $100,000 at stake.
 
 
08/12/2013
Despite the one-year postponement of the employer insurance mandate, Oct. 1 remains a deadline home health agencies can’t afford to ignore, say experts who have studied the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) multitude of moving parts.
 
 
08/12/2013
A.D. Maxim & Associates, Troy, Mich., has compiled a face-to-face encounter form for home health agencies to provide physicians. The form provides space for physicians to write narratives explaining why clinical findings support the need for home health services and why clinical findings support the homebound per CMS guidelines. Agencies can use forms like this to protect themselves against the increase in scrutiny from MACs.
08/12/2013
Proposed Medicare payment cuts, rising gas prices and the future transition to ICD-10 and OASIS-C1 mean that agencies are focusing on improving productivity and efficiency.
08/12/2013
The data below show the average number of actual patient visits per day performed by different home health disciplines.
The data are based on answers from the survey’s 136 respondents. Visits are not weighted.
 
08/12/2013
Four U.S. legislators are asking for their colleagues’ help in urging CMS to modify the face-to-face requirement.
 
 

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