Home Health Line
03/12/2018
CMS’ newly posted surveyor training reiterates the need for home health agencies to ensure patients’ plans of care are individualized. The training also explains that surveyors should make sure agencies include all the plan-of-care elements detailed within the revised Home Health Conditions of Participation (CoPs).
03/12/2018
Do you think a patient might lose her balance when retrieving clothes? Did you feel like you needed to be in the room for the patient’s safety when the patient demonstrated that ability? If clinicians answer “yes” to questions like these, be sure their concerns are reflected in the way they respond to M1810 (Ability to dress upper body). Otherwise you could be losing money.
03/12/2018
CMS confirmed to HHL that the patient rights notice as detailed within the revised Home Health Conditions of Participation (CoPs) doesn’t need to be provided to patients admitted prior to Jan. 13, 2018, when the revised CoPs took effect.
03/12/2018
An OASIS-related change outlined in the revised Home Health Conditions of Participation (CoPs) has prompted CMS to tweak the logic it uses to calculate the timely initiation of care measure that appears on Home Health Compare.
03/12/2018
Data show the improper payment rate for home health claims continues to significantly improve.
03/12/2018
To avoid significant back taxes and penalties from the IRS, be sure to properly classify your workers as contractors or employees.
03/12/2018
L543 (Plan of care) was the most common citation during hospice surveys in 2017, while two other issues involving the content of the plan of care (L545 and L547) ranked among the top six, CMS data show.
03/12/2018
by: ABILITY Network
The average number of clinical case-mix points in 2017 was 4.5. It has remained relatively stable after it plummeted from 8.3 in 2014 to 4.2 in 2015, according to data from Minneapolis-based ABILITY Network Inc.

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