Home Health Line
03/16/2015
Home care groups and hospital networks commenting on CMS’ proposed amendments for accountable care organizations (ACOs) in the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) like the idea of granting ACOs the right to claim home health payments for care of non-homebound patients. CMS proposed this concept for its new test of how acute and post-acute providers can work together to reduce hospitalizations.
 
03/16/2015
by: Laura Montalvo
Face-to-face documentation expert Laura Montalvo, chief clinical officer for Anaheim, Calif.-based SelectData, recently held a webinar for DecisionHealth on how to address CMS’ recent face-to-face documentation requirement changes.
 
03/16/2015
CMS is continuing to tweak the templates it’s proposing for doctors to use when documenting face-to-face encounters.
 
03/16/2015
Identify which diagnoses are leading to the most readmissions for your local hospitals and show how you can help improve hospital compare numbers for those hospitals.
 
03/16/2015
More agencies are focusing on warning patients on oxygen about the risk of serious burns or even death when they light up cigarettes or cover their oxygen tanks with a blanket that can absorb dangerous amounts of the therapeutic gas. 
 
03/16/2015
Make sure your clinicians understand CMS guidance that an ostomy is not considered a surgical wound for the purposes of answering M1340 (Surgical wound).
 
03/16/2015
A newly released report from CMS shows health care providers participating in 25 CMS reporting programs across the country, including home health agencies, have improved performance on quality measures from 2006 to 2013.
 
03/16/2015
Nearly 60% of the 280 respondents to HHL’s 2015 trends survey have taken steps — or will take steps this year — to partner with other providers such as hospitals or physicians to prepare for ACOs, care-transitions demonstrations or other payment model changes. 
 
03/16/2015
by: Bellin Home Health
Use the following tool to identify safety risks for oxygen-dependent patients and/or their caregivers.
03/16/2015
by: Bellin Home Health
Provide patients the following contract when they prove safety-resistant.

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