Home Health Line
08/30/2021
Recent data on the most common hospice principal diagnoses show a shift leaning more toward increasing numbers of neurological disease.
08/23/2021
Drop the phrase “considerable and taxing effort” from your vocabulary — it can be a bright red flag for an auditor looking to dive deeper and question homebound determinations.
08/23/2021
The code to capture COVID-19 — U07.1 (COVID-19) — was the second most commonly assigned primary diagnosis code for January through June 2021.
08/23/2021
Telehealth promises a host of improvements for patients, a less strenuous workload for staff and potential business opportunities for providers.
08/23/2021
Hospices not meeting quality reporting requirements in FY 2022 will face an increased penalty down the road.
08/23/2021
Here’s a list of the top 10 primary diagnoses for traditional Medicare 30-day periods pulled from Strategic Healthcare Programs’ National Client Database.
08/16/2021
Employers need to be clear about when exceptions to vaccine mandates must be made and how state laws can add a wrinkle to their vaccination policies.
08/16/2021
CGS alone returned 15,000 claims to home health agencies in June because of a duplicate RAP or it couldn’t find the RAP that matched the claim.
08/16/2021
Coding experts were surprised to see M35.81 (Multisystem inflammatory syndrome) listed as a code that will no longer have a diagnosis code clinical group designation come Oct. 1, as outlined in the home health grouper.
08/16/2021
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