Home Health Line
10/25/2018
by: Megan Batty
When it comes to determining which home health coders make the higher salaries, five factors appear to have the greatest impact on coder compensation.
10/25/2018
About 41% of home health coders received base salaries of $65,001 to $90,000 in 2018.
10/25/2018
Agencies recently asked a number of questions of industry experts J’non Griffin, Joan Usher and Robert Markette. Griffin is president of Home Health Solutions, LLC in Carbon Hill, Ala., Usher is president of JLU Health Record Systems of Pembroke, Mass., and Markette is an attorney with Indianapolis-based Hall, Render, Killian, Heath & Lyman.
10/17/2018
About 43% of agencies expect OASIS-D will take at least 90 minutes to complete at start of care (SOC). That's according to the 270 respondents to a question on DecisionHealth’s OASIS-D Survey.
10/17/2018
While agencies expect OASIS-D to have a negative impact on productivity, many respondents to a recent DecisionHealth survey haven’t worked to mitigate this risk and don’t yet have a plan to do so.
10/17/2018
CMS has made massive updates to bring OASIS Q&A guidance up to date for the Jan. 1, 2019, implementation of OASIS-D.
10/17/2018
It’s essential that agencies work to make their billing departments as efficient as possible in advance of the proposed Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM).
10/17/2018
CMS is making progress with efforts to mail out Medicare cards with new Medicare beneficiary identifiers (MBIs), and it remains on track to require providers to use those MBIs on claims beginning Jan. 1, 2020.
10/17/2018
Following a recent DecisionHealth webinar about the proposed Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM), agencies asked questions of attorney Robert Markette of Indianapolis-based Hall, Render, Killian, Heath & Lyman. Here are some of his answers.
10/17/2018
Expect accrediting organizations to double down on finding problems with standards that crosswalk with CMS’ revised Home Health Conditions of Participation (CoPs) in organization, service & administration as well as acceptance of patients, plan of care and medical supervision.

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