Home Health Line
08/08/2024
CMS finalized the national payment update, new quality measures around pain and non-pain symptom response, the HOPE instrument and CAHPS updates.
08/08/2024
Each MAC has warned providers that claims will not be paid if the record doesn’t show a hand-off or documentation of the agency reaching back out to a previous physician or non-physician practitioner when there is a change in the practitioner guiding the care plan.
08/08/2024
Providers that fail to coordinate and document interdisciplinary communication risk claim denials, survey citations or patient injury.
08/08/2024
A panel of experts looked at guardrails and strategies to mitigate the risks to patients and health care workers when using AI to help with documentation, clinical decision making and patient-facing chatbots.
08/08/2024
CMS finalized a 2.9% payment rate update for fiscal year 2025, but the impact of the rate will differ depending on the hospice wage index of the local Census designated area.

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