Home Health Line
11/28/2018
Following a recent DecisionHealth webinar about the revised Home Health Conditions of Participation (CoPs), agencies asked questions of industry expert Elizabeth Pearson. Pearson is an attorney with Pearson & Bernard in Edgewood, Ky.
11/28/2018
Assign a code for a patient’s body mass index (BMI) only when there is also a documented condition associated with the BMI that meets the definition of a reportable diagnosis, according to recently released Q4 2018 Coding Clinic guidance.
11/28/2018
GG0170 (Mobility) is the item new to OASIS-D that concerns agencies the most. It’s followed by GG0100 (Prior functioning).
11/14/2018
Agencies should make it a top priority to improve coding specificity and assess the use of codes that do — and do not — drive clinical groups under the Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM).
11/14/2018
Reducing the number of patient hospitalizations will take on even greater importance for agencies in value-based purchasing states starting in 2019.
11/14/2018
While agencies hustle to prepare for the Jan. 1, 2019, implementation of OASIS-D, changes to the assessment outlined in the 2019 PPS final rule could be enough to create another version of the OASIS, some industry experts contend.
11/14/2018
Agencies will continue to receive one point for a patient with a secondary diagnosis of diabetes in the first equation, according to the case-mix table discussed in the 2019 PPS final rule.
11/14/2018
CMS has decided — for now — against moving forward with a plan to reduce the frequency with which it updates the Grouper software used to assign the appropriate HIPPS code used for case-mix adjustment onto claims.
11/14/2018
Most employers are required by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act and state law to guard against and respond to claims that an employee was sexually harassed by a coworker or manager. But employers also can be liable for sexual harassment of an employee by non-employees, such as sales representatives, patients or referral sources.
11/14/2018
by: DecisionHealth's OASIS-D Survey
About 32% of agencies submit their OASIS to the state in a week or less, while nearly 30% require more than two weeks to submit their OASIS to the state.

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