Home Health Line
05/19/2014
Palmetto GBA has released a face-to-face audit checklist that provides more clues into what Medicare administrative contractors (MACs) might be seeking in agencies’ documentation. The MAC also posted a YouTube video April 18 walking agencies through how to use the checklist.
 
 
05/19/2014
Don’t reduce staff or cut their hours to make them part-timers this year solely to qualify for the one-year delay in the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) employer mandate.
05/19/2014
Take advantage of your vendors’ cost-analysis reports to spot potential areas for big supply savings.
 
 
05/19/2014
Home health coders are getting paid more than they did a year ago. Salaries are up about 4%, according to the results of the DecisionHealth’s 2014 home health coders’ salary survey.
 
 
05/19/2014
Get the national average salary for common home health titles in this bar graph below. This is part of DecisionHealth’s 2014 home health coders’ salary survey. 
05/19/2014
A coder’s level of education is directly tied to his/her salary, according to results from the 2014 coders’ salary survey. Consider that a coder with a master’s degree takes home an average annual salary of $71,539, while a coder with only a high school diploma makes an average of $40,673, according to survey results. 

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