Home Health Line
02/06/2019
Expect the most profitable codes in 2020 to look vastly different from the most profitable codes in 2018.
02/06/2019
Ensure your agency has a drug use policy in place and enforces it consistently to help protect against the many legal challenges presented by the growing legalization of marijuana.
02/06/2019
CMS has announced plans to expand its Value-Based Insurance Design (VBID) demonstration to allow Medicare Advantage plans to test offering hospice services beginning in 2021.
02/06/2019
Many corrections outlined in the OASIS-D errata released in July 2018 weren’t present in the final guidance manual, leaving some confusion about what guidance agencies were supposed to follow.
02/06/2019
CMS is updating Appendix Z of the State Operations Manual in order to tweak the emergency preparedness requirements for health care providers, according to a Feb. 1 memo to state survey agency directors.
02/06/2019
CMS did not extend its moratoria on new home health agencies and new branches of existing home health agencies.
02/06/2019
Fines for Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) violations have been adjusted for inflation. A pre-publication version of the U.S. Department of Labor's final rule increasing the civil monetary penalties was posted Jan. 15.
02/06/2019
by: Minneapolis-based ABILITY Network Inc.
Z47.1 (Aftercare following joint replacement surgery) was the most profitable primary diagnosis in home health through the first three quarters of 2018. The average reimbursement per episode was $3,379, while the average cost per episode was $2,214.

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