Home Health Line
08/10/2015
Give your doctors documentation tip cards or checklists for common home health diagnoses. Doing so will save home health coders and nurses time.
 
08/10/2015
CMS will move forward with restructuring the way it pays hospices, resulting in the first major payment change in more than 30 years. 
 
08/10/2015
CMS will have to be more explicit about what Medicaid managed care plans should pay providers of home support services to keep frail beneficiaries out of nursing homes.
 
08/10/2015
The findings from two recent audits by the HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) may lead to a more concerted effort by CMS to get surveyors to focus on worker qualifications. The OIG audits found that some home health aides surveyed lacked basic education and in-service training.
 
08/10/2015
Medicare administrative contractors’ local coverage determinations (LCDs) with ICD-10 codes are available for you to review on the CMS coverage database website. You’ll need to know what codes the contractors require for billing in ICD-10. 
 
08/10/2015
Solicit caregiver feedback in the form of a single question to your caregivers as part of your agency’s processes to improve staff retention rates. 
 
08/10/2015
The data below show the average number of visits per day performed by discipline.
 
08/10/2015
About 41% of agencies don’t expect their clinicians’ productivity to decline due to ICD-10, according to the 142 respondents to a question on HHL’s 2015 Productivity Survey. 
 
08/10/2015
by: Arlene Maxim
Use this ICD-10 documentation checklist as a guide when you create an agency-specific checklist to provide office managers and discharge planners. Doing so will educate them about what documentation your agency will need in order to code properly after ICD-10 is implemented Oct. 1, 2015. 
 

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