Home Health Line
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.
06/05/2019
A recent HIPAA breach that involved transmission of protected health information (PHI) to only one party — a reporter — nonetheless cost a Connecticut practice $125,000, in part because the practice didn’t take simple precautions.
06/05/2019
About 46% of coders spend 31 to 45 minutes to code a chart on average. That’s according to the 283 respondents to DecisionHealth’s 2019 Home Health Coders’ Productivity Survey.
05/29/2019
The coming Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM) will make it no less than imperative to find out why a patient is retaining urine or has pain in her right knee, if that condition is going to be the basis for the patient’s home health admission.
05/29/2019
While OASIS-D1 will make responses to 23 existing items optional, agencies must keep in mind that the OASIS is only one piece of the assessment puzzle.
05/29/2019
The national turnover rate for private duty caregivers in 2018 ballooned to 81.6% — by far the highest turnover rate in the 10 years Home Care Pulse of Rexburg, Idaho, has tracked this data.
05/29/2019
A revised CMS memorandum on OASIS-D1 sheds light on when to use the new version of the OASIS, including a special allowance designed to accommodate the transition to the Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM).
05/29/2019
CMS’ latest quarterly refresh of Hospice Compare data comes with additional information designed to let consumers know more detail about specific hospices.
05/29/2019
In the May 23 refresh of Hospice Compare, providers nationwide scored 85.3% on the “Hospice and palliative care composite process measure.”

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