Home Health Line
07/07/2014
The hospice industry now has nearly four dozen organizations — including the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, AARP and the American Medical Association, the National Association for Home Care and Hospice and the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization — joined in opposition to CMS instructions which would require that Part D drug plans preauthorize drugs needed by hospice patients.
07/07/2014
You now have a new CMS resource to turn to when you experience problems with recovery audit contractors (RACs) and other contractors.
 
07/07/2014
Have clinicians complete their electronic clinical documentation during or right after each visit. That step can protect you from ramped up state surveyor scrutiny on documentation timeliness.
07/07/2014
Reduce your risk for costly denials associated with the therapy reassessment requirement by conducting tests like the 30-second chair stand test.
 
07/07/2014
Agencies that have issues with timely documentation need to incorporate that requirement into their conditions of employment.
07/07/2014
Now is the time to go back to your ICD-10 transition team and do a post-mortem of all your preparation efforts to assess what your agency was able to accomplish, what it has yet to achieve, where your training was effective and what areas you may have neglected.
07/07/2014
Assign the same group of employees to visit assisted living facilities (ALFs) each time you have appointments there. The assurance that the same people from your agency will visit each time will make patients and employees more comfortable about letting your agency into the facility, and could generate more referrals.
07/07/2014
Nearly 20% of respondents to a recent HHL survey said that assisted living facilities were a top referral source.

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