Home Health Line
02/26/2020
Carefully review your contracts with health IT vendors, such as your electronic health record (EHR) company or electronic data storage provider.
02/26/2020
CMS is offering web-based training on existing requirements and changes coming to the Home Health Quality Reporting Program.
02/26/2020
About 32% of agencies worked to implement or complete a QAPI performance improvement project on reducing fall risks in 2019, according to 135 respondents to HHL’s 2020 Trends Survey.
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.

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