Home Health Line
08/14/2017
Start familiarizing yourself with the Confusion Assessment Method (CAM) and other tests that involve assessing patients’ cognitive function and mental status.
08/14/2017
Updating the referral date for all patients who experience a delay in discharge from inpatient care is a strategy one home health agency has used to improve timely initiation of care as part of its QAPI program.
08/14/2017
All but one of the 79 diagnosis codes that will be newly eligible for case-mix status on Oct. 1 are new to the ICD-10 code set, arriving in the 2018 fiscal year update.
08/14/2017
CMS released the 2018 guidance manual for OASIS-C2 on Aug. 4. The new guidance manual, which takes effect Jan. 1, 2018, clarifies the “one-clinician rule.”
08/14/2017
Fully optimizing your electronic medical records (EMR) system and cross-training staff can help speed up your agency’s billing processes. Industry experts say focusing on improvements in these key areas could potentially allow agencies to submit bills a week sooner.
08/14/2017
CMS has withdrawn its proposal to have accrediting organizations such as The Joint Commission post the details of survey reports online.
08/14/2017
One private duty agency’s implementation of a specialty Parkinson’s program has shown strong results both with client outcomes and revenue.
08/14/2017
by: The Financial Monitor
Days sales outstanding (DSO) has been creeping up for commercial payers, likely in part due to tighter authorization requirements from commercial insurers, according to Simione Healthcare Consultants. The following data from The Financial Monitor, a Hamden, Conn.-based benchmarking service of Simione show how many days it took to collect payments in the first quarter of 2017 and 2016. The data represent more than 400 agencies.

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