Home Health Line
07/22/2020
One of the biggest ways to avoid patient complaints is to clearly communicate clinicians’ schedules to patients.
07/22/2020
The fear of contracting COVID-19 has forced home health agencies to get creative with how they recruit and onboard staff to fill any shortages they are seeing.
07/22/2020
As soon as COVID-19 entered the U.S., reports began to surface detailing an increased rate of cyberattacks against health care entities.
07/22/2020
This table shows the weekly home health start-of-care volume for the months since the start of the pandemic and compared to last year during the same time
07/17/2020
Dear subscriber:
 
We would like to introduce the inaugural issue of the Home Health Line Q&A.
07/15/2020
As states experiment with different phases of reopening, home health agencies like all businesses are working to establish the “new normal” to protect their employees.
07/15/2020
The percentage of home health payment periods that ended up with LUPAs increased during March 2020, in part, because patients refused care for fear of contracting COVID-19.
07/15/2020
Home health agencies may soon have access to a new home infusion therapy (HIT) benefit, effective January 1, 2021, if the related proposals in the 2021 PPS rule get finalized.
07/15/2020
Beginning on Oct. 1, coders will have specific diagnosis codes to capture other pathological fractures.
07/15/2020
Coders can get a head start on getting to know the changes to coding rules for diagnosis coding as the FY2021 ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines on Coding and Reporting were issued July 8 -- weeks ahead of the typical early August release date.

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