Home Health Line
02/19/2020
Consider tapping agency clinicians to help pick up the pace and achieve success within the shortened billing cycle under the Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM).
02/19/2020
Agencies must ensure care planning and coordination efforts are properly documented or risk survey deficiencies.
02/19/2020
Agencies should prepare for how they will compensate for the loss of rural add-on payments as the phase out continues, with some agencies losing all payments as early as next year.
02/19/2020
News reports of deaths and illnesses from the rapidly spreading coronavirus get scarier every day. 
02/19/2020
by: CMS
Care planning, coordination, quality of care [§484.60; G570] was the most common condition-level deficiency from Jan. 1, 2019, through Dec. 31, 2019, according to CMS data. (See story).
02/12/2020
As part of a routine assessment for all patients, agencies should begin conducting a Brief Interview for Mental Status (BIMS) to detect patients’ cognitive impairments.
 
02/12/2020
Both CMS and the HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) say the drive to connect every Medicare beneficiary with their new Medicare beneficiary identifier (MBI), which has been required for claims since Jan. 1, has been successful.
02/12/2020
Following a recent DecisionHealth webinar on compliance following implementation of the Patient-Driven Groupings Model, agencies asked questions of industry expert Robert Markette, an attorney with Indianapolis-based Hall, Render, Killian, Heath & Lyman. Here are some of his answers.
02/12/2020
CMS is working to incorporate new improvements to Home Health Compare and other Compare tools to help patients find health care providers in various settings around the care continuum.
02/12/2020
An issue with Illinois pre-claim review submissions has been resolved, Medicare Administrative Contractor (MAC) Palmetto GBA announced.

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