Home Health Line
11/28/2018
Train clinicians immediately about how they’ll need to respond to a new OASIS item assessing prior functioning.
11/28/2018
Home health providers, reeling from the regulatory burdens of the revised Home Health Conditions of Participation (CoPs) and new emergency preparedness requirements, support the idea of eliminating overly burdensome and/or unnecessary requirements.
11/28/2018
New data show the improper payment rate for home health claims continues to significantly improve. And the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) is pointing to that improvement in its argument for why the review choice demonstration (RCD) should not occur.
11/28/2018
U.S. District Judge James Boasberg recently ruled that HHS must eliminate the backlog of appeals at the Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) level by the end of the 2022 fiscal year.
11/28/2018
Following a recent DecisionHealth webinar about the revised Home Health Conditions of Participation (CoPs), agencies asked questions of industry expert Elizabeth Pearson. Pearson is an attorney with Pearson & Bernard in Edgewood, Ky.
11/28/2018
Assign a code for a patient’s body mass index (BMI) only when there is also a documented condition associated with the BMI that meets the definition of a reportable diagnosis, according to recently released Q4 2018 Coding Clinic guidance.
11/28/2018
GG0170 (Mobility) is the item new to OASIS-D that concerns agencies the most. It’s followed by GG0100 (Prior functioning).

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