Home Health Line
05/16/2016
Nearly 400 Medicare-certified home health agencies nationwide still have not notified the home health value-based purchasing help desk of their primary point of contact.
05/16/2016
A first look at ICD-10 data reveals subcategories involving wound care remain among the least profitable for home health.
05/16/2016
Steer clear of offering free administrative services that ordinarily would be the responsibility of hospital discharge planners.
05/16/2016
Remind physical therapists, occupational therapists and speech-language pathologists (SLPs) that M2250 (Plan of care synopsis) requires documentation of vital signs and other clinical findings.
05/16/2016
CMS has made final a Medicaid rule intended to encourage but not require the availability of home support services for beneficiaries enrolled in Medicaid managed care plans.
05/16/2016
If your inpatient hospice building is taller than 75 feet and doesn’t have automatic sprinkler systems, you’ll need to invest in them.
05/16/2016
A change request posted April 28 will implement an edit that immediately returns to hospices NOEs that don’t list a principal diagnosis.
05/16/2016
by: Seattle-based OCS HomeCare, now a part of ABILITY Network Inc.
I87- (Other disorders of veins) was the least profitable ICD-10 subcategory in the fourth quarter of 2015. Episodes involving I87- have an average cost of $2,738 and an average reimbursement of $2,910.

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