Home Health Line
04/17/2025
While AI may not be on your radar now, you need to know what is out there so you can strategically plan for your agency’s future — and not be left behind.
04/17/2025
Empowering your clinicians to discuss the importance of balanced food choices with patients could help your agency build patient health literacy and manage the symptoms of chronic conditions.
04/17/2025
CMS will be using updated U.S. Census data to determine how a Census designated area’s wage rate will impact the fiscal year 2026 hospice payments.
04/10/2025
Avoiding post-payment denials requires an agency-wide effort to address documentation issues, from intake to timely medical review responses. Noridian, CMS’ Supplemental Medical Review Contractor (SMRC), announced March 31 that it had completed its review of second certification periods billed in 2022. The contractor reported an 86% error rate for reviewed claims. 
04/10/2025
Build clinician understanding about the factors that often prevent patients who live in disadvantaged neighborhoods from receiving timely starts to home health care. Agencies that target common barriers while ensuring staff safety could see improvements to patient outcomes and perceptions of health care.
04/10/2025
Health care providers often find themselves on the receiving end of verbal, emotional or physical abuse at work. While the drivers and causes of violence are varied, effective workplace violence (WPV) prevention is key to giving health care workers the workplace they deserve.
04/10/2025
Coders should not assume a relationship between a patient’s venous insufficiency and diabetes mellitus, the Coding Clinic clarified in their recent Q1 2025 guidance update.
04/10/2025
Nearly half of 1,546 claims denied under medical review by Palmetto GBA during the fourth quarter of 2024 were due to no response.
04/03/2025
Industry leaders are calling on the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to carefully plot out major job cuts and department shifts to avoid impacting patients and providers.
04/03/2025
Utilize basic email security protocols and educate staff on identifying messages that could present threats to your agency’s finances, technology and sensitive patient information. Failing to prevent these attacks could lead to barriers in patient care, loss of business or, possibly, closure.

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