Home Health Line
09/24/2020
The global pandemic has revealed the potential for home health growth as the benefits of these at-home services and the technological advantages they allow receive new attention.
09/24/2020
Data from a recent study of Medicare home health cost reports supports the case that agencies didn’t make the behavioral adjustments that CMS predicted prior to PDGM.
09/24/2020
Auditors may be on the lookout for the timing of when plans of care are signed by a physician. Agencies should take note.
09/24/2020
Come January, coders could have a handful of new COVID-19 diagnosis codes to assign.
09/24/2020
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), “Contact tracing has been used for decades by state and local health departments to slow or stop the spread of infectious diseases.”
09/24/2020
This chart shows the percentage of periods that ended up in each PDGM clinical group compared to CMS’ projections, with the behavior adjustment and without.
09/17/2020
Many comments to the proposed 2021 home health payment rule asked CMS to consider the public health emergency (PHE) and the strain that it has had on providers when finalizing the rule.
09/17/2020
CMS recently sketched out more details about the payment penalty for RAPs not accepted within five days.
09/17/2020
The Q3 2020 Coding Clinic guidance update — released Sept 8 — included new frequently asked questions (FAQs) regarding COVID-19.
 
09/17/2020
The data below show the percentage of 30-day payment periods where the patient came from the community versus an institution and timing was early versus late. 

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