Home Health Line
01/18/2016
Start collecting and organizing value-based purchasing data related to the program’s three new measures — staff flu and patient shingles vaccinations, and advanced care planning — that agencies will need to submit to CMS via a HHVBP Secure Portal beginning Oct. 1.
01/18/2016
Medicare contractors’ systems issues initially made it appear that some agencies would have to respond to more than five additional documentation requests (ADRs) involving CMS’ new nationwide “Probe and Educate Review.”
01/18/2016
Alert your referring physicians that the latest physician fee schedule makes it easier to get transitional care management (TCM) payments.
01/18/2016
CMS’ new discharge planning proposal will require significant changes for home health agencies and will be extremely time-consuming and costly for the industry.
01/18/2016
A bipartisan bill cleared by the Senate Finance Committee in December would authorize steps intended to relieve the current backlog of denied claims awaiting administrative law judge (ALJ) hearings.
01/18/2016
by: HHL’s 2016 Trends Survey
Many agencies plan to provide more QI training and have more quality reviews in an attempt to prepare for new quality initiatives such as value-based purchasing, according to 108 respondents to a question on HHL’s 2016 Trends Survey. 

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