Home Health Line
01/02/2019
By having case conferences to discuss specific patients, agencies help ensure compliance with the revised Home Health Conditions of Participation (CoPs).
01/02/2019
CMS released the final OASIS-D guidance manual less than two weeks before the new version of the assessment took effect. Not all expected changes were outlined in the final version.
01/02/2019
Ever questioned whether it was good or appropriate to pay your accrediting organization (AO) for consulting services on how to comply with the same standards it set that allow you to stay in business?
01/02/2019
Practices have been part of a boom in advance care planning in recent years, but CMS’ open-ended rules and the wide eligibility parameters for the two advance care planning codes suggest plenty of room for growth.
01/02/2019
CMS has published updated details on potentially avoidable events, process and outcome measures for 2019. The updated tables also include details on star-ratings measures and quality measures new to Home Health Compare in 2019.
01/02/2019
CMS recently released a list of measures under consideration for various Medicare programs, including the Home Health Quality Reporting Program and Hospice Quality Reporting Program.
01/02/2019
Care planning, coordination, quality of care [§484.60; G570] was the most common condition-level deficiency from Jan. 1, 2018, through Dec. 27, 2018, according to CMS data. 
01/02/2019
by: CMS
Plan of care [G572] was the most common standard-level deficiency from Jan. 1, 2018, through Dec. 27, 2018, according to CMS data.
12/18/2018
Make completing documentation in the home a requirement for all clinicians. Doing so will improve coordination of care and speed up the billing process — a key to survival under the Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM).
12/18/2018
Agencies should continue efforts to get clinicians comfortable with OASIS-D as 2019 unfolds.

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