Free Home Health Line Tool
10/08/2014
by: Johns Hopkins
View Johns Hopkins Home Care Group’s policy on mandatory influenza vaccinations. 
09/08/2014
by: CMS
The following is a sample of an initial cover letter to be sent for the CAHPS hospice survey.
 
09/04/2014
by: CMS
Use this form to authorize a survey vendor to submit data on your hospice's behalf.
09/02/2014
by: CMS
Several companies have met the hospice CAHPS survey requirements to be conditionally approved to administer the survey.
08/25/2014
StrategicHealthSoluitions recently mailed the following letter to a home health agency when issuing denials due to face-to-face documentation issues.
07/01/2014
CMS released its Home Health Prospective Payment System (HH PPS) for calendar year 2015 on July 1. 
06/25/2014
View the average number of clinical case-mix points captured by agencies on OASIS items in 2011, 2012 and 2013.
06/19/2014
This document lists changes CMS has made to the OAISS-C1 to create its’ OASIS-C1/ICD-9 version and states the reasons for changing coding items to allow for ICD-9 codes.
 
06/19/2014
This document contains CMS’ draft OASIS-C1/ICD-9 version item set, which becomes effective Jan. 1, 2015. It is similar to OASIS-C1, except that it reverts to OASIS-C items that can accommodate ICD-9 codes. This interim version is expected to be in use until Oct. 1, 2015, when ICD-10 is supposed to go into effect along with the OASIS-C1 version that allows for ICD-10 codes.
 
 
06/11/2014
The following is an example of a “good call” Simione Healthcare Consultants had with a home health agency’s intake department when it conducted a mystery call on behalf of the agency.
 
 

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