Home Health Line
03/12/2020
 
Agencies need to take steps to protect themselves when their electronic health record vendor suffers a security breach, commits fraud or otherwise drops the compliance ball. Here are nine tips that can help you out:
03/12/2020
With the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) continuing to spread internationally, the coding world is catching up, little by little.
03/12/2020
CMS has announced all health care providers should ensure they’re implementing infection control procedures.
03/12/2020
About 22% of private duty agencies said their top referral source of 2018 was clients, according to Home Care Pulse of Rexburg, Idaho.
03/12/2020
About 22% of private duty agencies said their top referral source of 2018 was clients, according to Home Care Pulse of Rexburg, Idaho. Home Care Pulse’s 2019 Home Care Benchmarking Study includes responses from 688 providers representing more than 1,100 locations.
03/04/2020
With the Review Choice Demonstration just getting started in Texas and poised to begin in the remaining two demonstration states in May, agencies nationwide should keep an eye on successes and best practices.
03/04/2020
Agencies should verify that specific elements of the claim and the OASIS assessment match exactly in order to avoid claims being returned to provider.
03/04/2020
Agencies should determine their risk factors in an effort to help combat patient rehospitalization percentages.
03/04/2020
Coders may assign Z45.2 (Encounter for adjustment and management of vascular access device) as the principal diagnosis or the first listed secondary diagnosis code in order to be placed in the Complex Nursing clinical grouping under the Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM), according to CMS.
03/04/2020
Following a recent DecisionHealth webinar on key documentation improvement for Review Choice and PDGM, agencies asked questions of industry expert Joseph Osentoski, a consultant with Gateway Home Health Consulting in Madison Heights, Mich. Here are some of his answers.

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