Home Health Line
08/07/2019
An ounce of prevention can prevent a pound of trouble — and legal bills — when it comes to hiring and pre-employment testing practices.
08/07/2019
Agencies have less than five months to ensure they submit all claims using new Medicare beneficiary identifiers (MBIs). Providers will be required to use those MBIs on claims beginning Jan. 1, 2020.
 
08/07/2019
Following a recent DecisionHealth webinar about achieving success in targeted probe-and-educate (TPE) reviews, agencies asked questions of Annette Lee, owner of Provider Insights Inc. in Des Moines, Iowa, and Wendy Bruce, administrator for Haven Home Health Inc. in Monroe, La. Below are some of their answers.
08/07/2019
by: BKD
The estimated profit margin under the Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM) varies widely from state to state, according to analysis by BKD Health Care Group of Sprinfield, MO.
07/31/2019
With OASIS-D firmly in place and OASIS-D1 updates on the horizon for 2020, CMS already is floating plans for another set of significant changes to the assessment to be implemented as part of OASIS-E in 2021.
07/31/2019
CMS is seeking to update the Home Health Conditions of Payment around plan of care to make the requirements less stringent around what’s required to get paid, but that doesn’t mean agencies can neglect listing all required components within those individualized plans of care.
07/31/2019
Effective writing skills will become essential to successful home health care documentation because of heightened specificity requirements under the Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM) set to take effect Jan. 1, 2020.
07/31/2019
U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) Secretary Alexander Acosta’s announcement that he is leaving his post amid controversy over his role in a lenient plea deal for multimillionaire Jeffrey Epstein is likely to bring a change in tone to the agency.
07/31/2019
The number of agencies earning 4.5 and five stars in the quality of care star ratings ticked upward in the most recent quarterly refresh of Home Health Compare.
07/31/2019
Agencies have continued to improve in several Home Health Compare measures included within value-based purchasing, according to data released July 24, 2019.

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