Benchmarks
02/22/2024
by: DecisionHealth Staff
Terminal diagnosis tops list of denials for new hospices One of the most frequent denial reason for new hospices under pre-payment review is “Documenation submitted doesn’t support prognosis of six months or less.” That’s according to the Palmetto GBA’s medical review results from July to September 2023. They looked at 52 hospice providers from six states: Florida, Georgia, Indiana, New Mexico, Ohio and South Carolina.
02/15/2024
Nearly 15% of Medicare beneficiaries ages 65 to 74 reported being food insecure in CMS’ most recent Financial Well-Being Report for 2021. The report included beneficiaries living in the community.
02/08/2024
COVID-19 continues to impact patient breathing in some patients, but agencies nationally are seeing improvement in the measure “How often patients’ breathing improved,” according to Care Compare results.
02/02/2024
Agencies increased salaries over the last year to attract and keep quality clinicians.
01/25/2024
Home health agencies are expecting more of their revenue to come from Medicare Advantage (MA) plans this year as enrollment grows
and payment rates decline for traditional Medicare fee-for-service.
01/11/2024
More than half of recent medical review denials from MAC Palmetto GBA were due to face-to-face encounter deficiencies.
01/04/2024
Agency leaders say detailed and timely clinician documentation was the biggest challenge, with physician education around documentation requirements coming in a strong second at nearly 50%.
12/22/2023
Recruitment and retention is expected to have the biggest impact on agency operations in 2024.
12/22/2023
With value-based payment adjustments largely dependent on hospitalization scores, it’s not surprising that is the top measure agencies said they’re focused on improving.
12/22/2023
Agencies are looking at recruitment and retention, staff education and technology as priorities in 2024.

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