Home Health Line
11/27/2019
Home health and private duty home care agencies should employ an Instagram business account to improve marketing opportunities. Doing this can increase online exposure and lead to more referrals.
11/27/2019
If you haven’t suffered a breach of patient protected health information, don’t think you’re safe from a HIPAA investigation.
11/27/2019
M2001 (Drug regimen review) is among the most time-consuming items currently on the OASIS, surpassed only by GG0170 (Mobility), according to 122 respondents to a question on HHL’s 2019 Home Health Clinician Productivity Survey. 
11/27/2019
Use the following intake scenarios and rationale to quiz staff in advance of January 1, 2020, implementation of the Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM).
 
11/13/2019
Under PDGM, agencies won’t be required to discharge a Medicare patient if the patient has an inpatient stay that spans the end of the first 30-day period of care in a certification period.
11/13/2019
Coders are no longer required to have physician documentation stating that chronic kidney disease is unrelated to hypertension when the physician states another cause, according to Q3 Coding Clinic Guidance.
11/13/2019
Reevaluate the role of intake and consider adopting stricter intake policies to get the referral right from the outset.
11/13/2019
It started with a gold star program and a traveling gnome. For one home health agency, these seemingly disconnected ideas became the ingredients to achieving top-notch customer care and improved patient satisfaction scores.
11/13/2019
CMS has re-released an MLN Matter article to confirm the decision to suppress payments associated with requests for anticipated payment (RAPs) for new agencies also impacts existing agencies that have undergone a change of ownership.
11/13/2019
The number of agencies achieving five stars in the quality of care ratings dropped slightly in the October 2019 refresh of Home Health Compare.

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