Home Health Line
02/27/2019
New items capturing self-care and mobility have been among the biggest challenges for clinicians involving OASIS-D, with struggles ranging from difficulty understanding item guidance to issues with scrubber software flagging inconsistencies between these and certain existing items.
02/27/2019
New results from CMS’ targeted probe-and-educate review indicate the home health industry has made little or no progress when it comes to improving the quality of documentation Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs) are seeking.
02/27/2019
CMS’ decision to suppress payments associated with requests for anticipated payment (RAPs) for new agencies also may impact existing agencies “going through a change in ownership,” a CMS spokeswoman tells HHL.
02/27/2019
While “Hospice and palliative care pain assessment” remains the most difficult individual measure for providers to earn high marks on when it comes to the Hospice Item Set (HIS), the hospice industry continues to improve significantly on it each quarter.
02/27/2019
Following a recent DecisionHealth webinar about the final interpretive guidelines for the revised Home Health Conditions of Participation (CoPs), agencies asked questions of industry expert Diane Link, owner of Link Healthcare Advantage. Here are some of Link’s answers.
02/27/2019
Agencies will face evolving compliance challenges beginning this year. Here’s a rundown of what our experts predict you can expect in compliance in 2019.
02/27/2019
by: DecisionHealth's OASIS-D Survey
More than 75% of agencies expected a decrease in clinician productivity in the first quarter of 2019 due to OASIS-D, while only 6% expected an increase in productivity because of it. That’s according to the 270 respondents to a question on DecisionHealth’s OASIS-D Survey.
02/27/2019
Use this tool to better understand the differences and similarities between longstanding M-items used to capture functional ability and activities of daily living (ADLs) and the GG items new to OASIS-D. 
02/21/2019
Three scenarios CMS officials walked agencies through during a Feb. 12 call about the Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM) offer a deep dive into how the home health industry will be paid next year.
02/21/2019
In the short term, a new MLN Matters article announcing CMS will suppress payments associated with requests for anticipated payment (RAPs) for all new home health agencies nationwide will be great news for many established providers. That’s because established agencies still will be able to get RAP payments while their new competition will not.

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