Home Health Line
11/06/2017
Actions that home health agencies and advocacy organizations took to combat CMS’ proposed Home Health Groupings Model (HHGM) have successfully torpedoed it. It’s a massive victory for an industry that believed the model would devastate agencies’ bottom lines and cause many providers to close.
11/06/2017
CMS’ long-awaited draft version of the interpretive guidelines for the revised Home Health Conditions of Participation (CoPs) provides agencies some clarity about what surveyors might focus on and how to avoid citations beginning Jan. 13, 2018.
11/06/2017
The number of agencies earning five stars in patient satisfaction has plummeted 64% since July 2017.
11/06/2017
CMS’ targeted probe-and-educate reviews for home health will consist of three rounds if agencies ensnared in it have a “high payment error rate above 15%,” Medicare Administrative Contractor (MAC) NGS explained during an Oct. 24 webinar.
11/06/2017
Four new sub-subcategories and 22 new codes could be added to ICD-10-CM for osteoporosis-related pathological fractures of the jaw, ribs and pelvis, thanks in part to proposals jointly submitted by DecisionHealth and the Association of Home Care Coding and Compliance (AHCC).
11/06/2017
Hospices will soon participate in pilot testing a draft version of an item set that covers the comprehensive patient assessment.
11/06/2017
Face time with referral partners to discuss your agency’s specialty program can be extremely beneficial — keeping it fresh in peoples’ minds and paying off with new referrals.
11/06/2017
by: Minneapolis-based ABILITY Network, Inc
Nationally, more than half of all total hip and knee replacement patients who were rehospitalized within 30 days of discharge in 2016 were rehospitalized within the first week, according to new data from Minneapolis-based ABILITY Network, Inc.

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