Home Health Line
05/30/2018
Following a recent DecisionHealth webinar about care planning/coordination and complying with the revised Home Health Conditions of Participation (CoPs), agencies asked questions of Sharon Litwin, principal and founder at 5 Star Healthcare Consultants in Camdenton, Mo. Litwin has previously served as a surveyor for two different accrediting organizations.
05/30/2018
One change CMS has proposed for OASIS-D is designed to ease confusion some coders have about how to fill out M1028 (Active diagnoses).
05/30/2018
Agency owners hoping to use arbitration agreements to avoid class action lawsuits brought by employees can rest easy. Those agreements are valid.
05/30/2018
by: Strategic Healthcare Programs (SHP), Santa Barbara, Calif.
Among the codes deemed to be questionable encounters according to the Home Health Groupings Model (HHGM) proposed — and not finalized — in the 2018 PPS rule, muscle weakness (generalized) was the most commonly used in 2017.
05/29/2018
by: QIRT
Train intake staff to use this checklist. Doing so will better ensure agencies have all the information they need to use more specific codes under a revised payment model.
05/28/2018
Initial survey results following the implementation of the revised Home Health Conditions of Participation (CoPs) show that some surveyors are closely scrutinizing agencies’ compliance with requirements involving home health aides.
05/28/2018
Ensure your agency checks that the physician’s recertification statement includes a clear estimate for how long the patient will continue requiring home health care.
05/28/2018
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.
05/28/2018
To ensure patients and their families are satisfied with care your hospice provides, train your employees to ask certain keywords during every visit.
05/28/2018
Hospices nationwide improved on all seven Hospice Item Set (HIS) measures in the latest update of Hospice Compare.

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