Home Health Line
02/25/2016
by: OCS HomeCare, now a part of the ABILITY Network
The average of clinical case-mix points dipped slightly to 3.98 in the fourth quarter in 2015, down from 4.28 the prior quarter.
01/11/2016
One of the most significant additional burdens agencies will face if CMS’ draft OASIS-C2 becomes final is the extra time that will be involved with educating on and responding to new and changed measures at start of care (SOC)/resumption of care (ROC) assessments.
01/11/2016
As part of a monthly or quarterly quality assurance review, agencies should closely monitor compliance when it comes to timely initiation of care.
01/11/2016
The list of quality measures for home health CMS may ultimately use to help determine payments to agencies just grew six measures longer.
01/11/2016
The MUC list includes all measures under consideration by the National Quality Forum’s Measures Applications Partnership (MAP) and may be selected by CMS for national pay-for-performance and public reporting programs. Below are measures under consideration for home health and hospice.
01/11/2016
No inflation update for home health payments in 2017 and a speedup of rebasing in 2018 to decrease payments so they are more in line with actual costs are two recommendations the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) plans to include in its annual report to Congress.
01/11/2016
Make sure your billing employees know CMS has issued a change request to include influenza virus vaccine CPT code 90630 (Influenza virus vaccine, quadrivalent (IIV4), split virus, preservative free, for intradermal use) for claims with dates of service on or after Aug. 1, 2015.
01/11/2016
by: OCS HomeCare by National Research Corporation
Agencies initiate care more timely when patients are discharged on Mondays and Tuesdays. Agencies initiate slower when patients are discharged on Fridays, according to data from OCS HomeCare by National Research Corporation. 
01/11/2016
by: OCS HomeCare by National Research Corporation
Agencies initiate care least timely — 84.8% of the time within two days — when patients are referred on Fridays, according to data from OCS HomeCare by National Research Corporation
01/11/2016
by: CMS
The following changes have been made to OASIS-C2 items to standardize them with other post-acute settings of care, according to CMS.

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