Home Health Line
05/30/2018
CMS is seeking public input into relaunching a pre-claim review demonstration for home health services. States that are potentially affected are located within Medicare Administrative Contractor (MAC) Palmetto GBA’s jurisdiction.
05/30/2018
Use a checklist to educate your agency’s intake employees about information needed to improve specificity around codes. Certain non-specific codes might indicate questionable encounters occurred under a revised home health payment system slated to begin in 2020.
05/30/2018
Following a recent DecisionHealth webinar about care planning/coordination and complying with the revised Home Health Conditions of Participation (CoPs), agencies asked questions of Sharon Litwin, principal and founder at 5 Star Healthcare Consultants in Camdenton, Mo. Litwin has previously served as a surveyor for two different accrediting organizations.
05/30/2018
One change CMS has proposed for OASIS-D is designed to ease confusion some coders have about how to fill out M1028 (Active diagnoses).
05/30/2018
Agency owners hoping to use arbitration agreements to avoid class action lawsuits brought by employees can rest easy. Those agreements are valid.
05/30/2018
by: Strategic Healthcare Programs (SHP), Santa Barbara, Calif.
Among the codes deemed to be questionable encounters according to the Home Health Groupings Model (HHGM) proposed — and not finalized — in the 2018 PPS rule, muscle weakness (generalized) was the most commonly used in 2017.

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