Home Health Line
07/22/2021
Identify the key points in developing the assessment, plan of care and interdisciplinary coordination.
07/22/2021
Be prepared for cases when physicians call on your clinicians to facilitate their virtual visits. This has been reported among agencies especially for patients who are COVID-19 positive and high risk and many are wondering how to handle this.
07/22/2021
The data show the average number of visits per 30-day period broken down by discipline for the last year.
07/15/2021
Pay close attention to your responses to the Home Health Care Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HHCAHPS) surveys as they soon may be a factor in payment adjustments under a national Home Health Value-Based Purchasing (HHVBP) model.
07/15/2021
Agencies will likely welcome a narrowed focus on preventable hospitalizations in quality reporting under the proposed 2022 home health payment rule.
07/15/2021
Agencies could see some changes in the way that CMS determines home health payments in 2022 if proposed changes to the comorbidity adjustment and functional impairment points get finalized.
07/15/2021
New hospice survey requirements, tucked in the 2022 proposed home health payment rule, call for more oversight and enforcement of health and safety requirements and establishes new regulations for surveyors.
07/15/2021
These tables show the percentage of 30-day periods of care that fell into each of the comorbidity adjustment categories and functional impairment levels for 2020.
07/15/2021
CMS is proposing to change the number of points assigned to the OASIS items that drive reimbursement in the Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM).
07/01/2021
CMS has announced a national expansion of the Home Health Value-Based Purchasing (HHVBP) model beginning Jan. 1, 2022.

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