Home Health Line
09/19/2024
Agencies are focusing training more on the OASIS GG items as answers to these items will be used to calculate discharge function scores and Home Health Value-Based Purchasing bonuses in 2025.
09/19/2024
One of the challenges in scoring the GG items is when to score 07 or 10, as well as when to score the patient as fully dependent or independent. Here are some questions the clinician should consider before using these scores.
09/19/2024
Closely review the reasoning behind payment denials as several different CMS contractors have been basing decisions on Conditions of Participation that should be unrelated to requirements for payment.
09/19/2024
Educating employees on the ties between performance metrics, agency operations and HHVBP could boost documentation accuracy and increase productivity and reliability among staff.
09/19/2024
Coders will be able to capture a post-acute encounter for sepsis aftercare with new code Z51.A (Encounter for sepsis aftercare), when it takes effect Oct. 1. This code will be helpful with capturing cases where the provider has documented the sepsis as “resolved” but the reason for the home care admission relates back to the sepsis.
09/19/2024
Compare your results on key publicly reported OASIS measures to the national averages.

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