Home Health Line
10/04/2018
Establish procedures, set benchmarks and hold staff accountable to increase efficiencies as part of a management approach designed to ensure quality and compliance.
10/04/2018
CMS is now proposing a Dec. 10 launch date for its review choice demonstration in Illinois. And CMS also has announced a second opportunity for the home health industry to comment about the proposed demonstration.
10/04/2018
CMS has posted revisions to the State Operations Manual, Appendix B — Guidance to Surveyors for Home Health Agencies.
10/04/2018
A diagnosis of COPD could default to emphysema and could be coded with J43.9, not J44.9, which is how it currently is coded, if changes to the ICD-10 code set proposed at the most recent meeting of the ICD-10 Coordination & Maintenance Committee are implemented next year.
10/04/2018
A new House bill seeks to eliminate the use of behavioral assumptions when determining payment rates under the proposed Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM).
10/04/2018
About 17% of the 3.6 million payment episodes from 2017 in Strategic Healthcare Programs’ database used a primary diagnosis that would be deemed a questionable encounter under CMS’ proposed Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM).
09/26/2018
When preparing for the Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM), it’s vital to examine how many visits your agency provides individual patients during 30-day periods — and to determine whether those episodes would be considered LUPAs under PDGM.
09/26/2018
Home health agencies and other facilities only would need to review their emergency preparedness programs every two years if a proposal from CMS is finalized.
09/26/2018
A new Senate bill seeks to eliminate the use of behavioral assumptions when determining payment rates under the proposed Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM).
09/26/2018
CMS has announced it is finalizing a proposal to add the measure “Improvement in management of oral medications” and remove the measure “Drug education on all medications provided to patient/caregiver during all episodes of care” from home health quality of care star ratings.

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