Home Health Line
10/22/2020
Agencies couldn’t have expected every twist and turn of the global pandemic, but leaders will be expected to update their emergency preparedness plans with the lessons learned from COVID-19, CMS states in a recent memo to surveyors.
10/22/2020
Pay attention to all of the OASIS items, not just those functional items that are worth points in PDGM. 
10/22/2020
Some Medicare Advantage Organizations (MAOs) will expand their benefits in 2021, including offering increased access to palliative care and integrated hospice care to enrollees.
10/22/2020
Answers to these questions were provided by Joe Osentoski, BAS, RN-BC, consultant, in Madison Heights, Mich.
10/22/2020
Health care organizations in the U.S. have experienced a significant increase in ransomware attacks, and the trend has continued upward during the pandemic.
10/22/2020
Care planning, coordination and quality of care ranked as the top survey concerns among the 247 total respondents to a survey conducted by HHL’s sister organization the Association of Home Care Coding & Compliance (AHCC). 
10/14/2020
Many of the outside audits and reviews on hold through the early months of the pandemic are expected to resume this fall, with a new level of intensity.
 
10/14/2020
The fourth quarter 2020 Coding Clinic guidance update released Oct. 1 included guidance on the newly implemented codes for pathological fractures.
10/14/2020
Agencies should consider implementing a Clinical Documentation Improvement (CDI) program in order to help paint a more detailed picture of a patient’s medical history.
10/14/2020
The following shows the difference between a non-compliant query which “leads” the provider to a specific diagnosis versus a complaint query which does not “lead” the provider to any one diagnosis and allows for open-ended responses.

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