Home Health Line
08/22/2018
Analyze your agency’s most commonly used primary diagnosis codes as a first step toward improving coding in preparation for the proposed Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM).
08/22/2018
There’s good news for agencies caught up in the daunting backlog of appeals at the Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) level. The backlog has been reduced by more than 30% since 2017, Modern Healthcare reports.
08/22/2018
Closely review whether your agency submits a final claim every time it submits a request for anticipated payment (RAP). If you recognize you’re not going to meet final billing requirements for whatever reason, consider canceling your own RAP rather than letting it auto cancel.
08/22/2018
It isn’t a requirement that patient protected health information (PHI) must be encrypted. But it has become less acceptable for providers to skip encryption.
08/22/2018
While “Hospice and palliative care pain assessment” remains the most difficult measure for providers to earn high marks on when it comes to the Hospice Item Set (HIS), the industry overall has improved nearly 5% on the measure since December 2017.
08/22/2018
by: Financial Monitor, Hamden, Conn.
The direct cost per visit for skilled nursing increased to $103 per visit in 2017, compared with $94 per visit in 2016, according to the Financial Monitor, a benchmarking service of Simione Healthcare Consultants, Hamden, Conn. Other disciplines also were costlier for agencies, including social workers ($185 compared with $158).
08/22/2018
The data below show the national median figures for home health agencies’ indirect costs as a percentage of revenue.

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