Home Health Line
08/24/2015
CMS has posted what it hopes will be a final version for the proposed electronic clinical template it created for doctors to use when documenting face-to-face encounters.  
 
08/24/2015
Agencies should investigate whether hiring a secure text messaging company makes sense for them.
 
08/24/2015
CMS is directing Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs) to instruct hospices to remove or omit from their claims certain oral anti-cancer and anti-emetic drugs until Jan. 1. Doing so will ensure claims are paid as opposed to being returned to provider (RTP’d) in error.
 
08/24/2015
As the home health industry continues to struggle with face-to-face documentation requirements, Medicare Administrative Contractor (MAC) Palmetto GBA recently worked with five agencies to improve best practices related to face to face.
 
08/24/2015
CMS and the HHCAHPS Coordination Team are clarifying the protocol for how vendors should work with agencies administering HHCAHPS along with other surveys.
 
08/24/2015
Take another look at the fine print if your agency has one or more Medicare Advantage (MA) contracts. Recent demands by MA plans for proof that home health visits are justified — such as requiring a social worker to evaluate a patient — suggest that the plans are scrutinizing costs more intensively than ever before.
 
08/24/2015
Many health care vendors are fully complete with product development in preparation for ICD-10, results of the June 2015 Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) ICD-10 Survey show.
08/24/2015
by: HHL’s 2015 Productivity Survey
The data below show the required number of visits per day performed by discipline, compared with the actual number of visits per day performed. 
08/24/2015
A discharge OASIS is not required in order to bill Medicare for a single, skilled visit. A story in HHL’s June 22 issue did not include this detail.

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