Home Health Line
12/23/2013
The implementation of ICD-10 will have the greatest impact on agency operations and financials in 2014 among all the requirements and regulatory changes that will impact the industry in 2014.
12/23/2013
Make sure your nurses can justify their patients’ homebound status at every visit throughout the entire episode to prevent or defend against the scrutiny of recovery audit contractors (RACs) that have descended on the home health industry.
 
 
12/23/2013
Home care agency stakeholders gathered on Capitol Hill Nov. 20 to seek relief from the negative impacts that the new overtime requirements will have on home care workers, clients and their families. They testified before the House Education & the Workforce Committee’s Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
 
 
12/23/2013
Educate your home health marketers about a new payment to physicians for overseeing chronically ill Medicare beneficiaries.
12/23/2013
Care plan oversight for any agency patient. This is the long-established reimbursement to physicians for overseeing patients who are admitted for standard home health episodes. Many practitioners prefer to forego this payment because it requires them to document the minimum 30 minutes of oversight tasks CMS requires.http://homehealthline.decisionhealth.com/Articles/Detail.aspx?id=516048
12/23/2013
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commision (MedPac) plans to ask Congress in March to cut Medicare payments to the 20% of agencies with the highest readmission rates among agencies with similar caseloads.
12/23/2013
Lawmakers might seek even more savings at the expense of home health to offset the costs of replacing the flawed sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula for setting Medicare rates for physician services.
12/23/2013
The national average for acute care hospitalization has improved to 16%, from 17%, according to the most recent update to Home Health Compare, released last week.

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