Home Health Line
06/11/2019
Collect information from multiple sources when responding to GG0110 (Prior device use). Doing so will help ensure more accurate responses.
06/11/2019
by: Mary Compton
Make compliance training for all staff and all affiliated partners a top priority. This will ensure your agency conforms with government mandates in an increasingly complex industry.
06/11/2019
Expect claims submitted to the government to be subjected to data analysis. The government is increasingly relying on data mining to ferret out improper payments, using all Medicare data and most Medicaid data to drill down into billing activity.
06/11/2019
by: NAHC
Among 487 respondents to a National Association for Home Care and Hospice (NAHC) survey question about therapy utilization under the Patient-Driven Groupings Model, about 25% plan to decrease therapy utilization by more than 10% and about 23% plan to decrease therapy utilization by more than 10%.
06/05/2019
When it comes to educating staff about how to respond to M1850 (Transferring), the key is paying close attention to the word “or” and how it’s used.
06/05/2019
As agencies prepare for the Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM), now is the time to strongly consider putting a coder accuracy requirement in place or reviewing your existing accuracy requirement.
06/05/2019
Agencies should establish policies for how to use a new valid response option coming to the OASIS beginning Jan. 1, 2020.
06/05/2019
Beginning in October 2019, CMS will publicly display results involving a quality measure called “Potentially preventable 30-day post-discharge readmissions.”
06/05/2019
A small majority of Illinois agencies have decided to participate in 100% pre-claim reviews during CMS’ Review Choice Demonstration (RCD), which launched June 1.
06/05/2019
Newly posted data from Medicare Administrative Contractor (MAC) CGS show agencies are still struggling with CMS’ targeted probe-and-educate (TPE) review.

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