Home Health Line
09/26/2018
Agencies recently asked a number of questions of industry experts J’non Griffin and Joan Usher. Griffin is president of Home Health Solutions, LLC in Carbon Hill, Ala., and Usher is president of JLU Health Record Systems of Pembroke, Mass.
09/26/2018
As coders mark the third anniversary of the U.S. adoption of ICD-10 this October, its newly minted successor is waiting in the wings, nearly ready for adoption.
09/26/2018
by: The Joint Commission
The Joint Commission collects data on agencies’ compliance with standards and National Patient Safety Goals to identify trends and focus education on challenging requirements. The data below identify the top 10 Joint Commission requirements that are most frequently “not compliant” during surveys and reviews from Jan. 1, 2018, through June 30, 2018.
09/20/2018
Old patterns of thinking about the kinds of services patients need and when to provide them could prove costly for agencies under case-mix methodology set out in the proposed Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM).
09/20/2018
CMS is proposing to eliminate three requirements it has deemed “burdensome” for home health agencies. These proposed changes to the revised Home Health Conditions of Participation (CoPs) might indeed have a positive impact on agencies in terms of their ability to be productive and provide high-quality care, industry experts say. The changes involve portions of the patient rights and aide competency requirements, as well as agencies’ timeframe for providing clinical records.
09/20/2018
While overall it’s good that CMS released final interpretive guidelines for surveyors about the revised Home Health Conditions of Participation (CoPs), many problems were left unresolved and the guidelines even created some new issues for agencies and surveyors, industry experts contend.
09/20/2018
In a Sept. 11 presentation at the Council of State Home Care Associations Policy Summit in Washington D.C., CMS announced that its proposed review choice demonstration would not occur in Illinois until at least December 2018.
09/20/2018
If one of your business associates ceases operations, you may have more to deal with than finding a replacement. You may also have HIPAA compliance problems.
09/20/2018
by: CMS
Therapy-focused agencies will take a big hit under the proposed Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM), according to the 2019 proposed PPS rule for home health. That’s because PDGM eliminates the “financial incentive to overprovide therapy in order to receive a higher payment,” CMS says.
09/12/2018
Nearly eight months after the revised Home Health Conditions of Participation (CoPs) took effect, CMS has posted final interpretive guidelines for surveyors.

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