Home Health Line
12/05/2018
Given an opportunity to provide insights about Medicare regulatory requirements that are burdensome, many in the home health industry pointed to tub baths currently being an aide competency requirement under the revised Home Health Conditions of Participation (CoPs).
12/05/2018
Add Medicare Administrative Contractor (MAC) CGS to the bandwagon of those paying close attention to agencies’ avoidance of low-utilization payment adjustments (LUPAs).
12/05/2018
Pain interview questions and a Brief Interview for Mental Status (BIMS) were top-scoring data elements in beta testing of items for post-acute providers as part of the IMPACT Act.
12/05/2018
About 31% of agencies expect to spend more than eight hours training for OASIS-D. 
11/28/2018
Train clinicians immediately about how they’ll need to respond to a new OASIS item assessing prior functioning.
11/28/2018
Home health providers, reeling from the regulatory burdens of the revised Home Health Conditions of Participation (CoPs) and new emergency preparedness requirements, support the idea of eliminating overly burdensome and/or unnecessary requirements.
11/28/2018
New data show the improper payment rate for home health claims continues to significantly improve. And the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) is pointing to that improvement in its argument for why the review choice demonstration (RCD) should not occur.
11/28/2018
U.S. District Judge James Boasberg recently ruled that HHS must eliminate the backlog of appeals at the Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) level by the end of the 2022 fiscal year.
11/28/2018
Following a recent DecisionHealth webinar about the revised Home Health Conditions of Participation (CoPs), agencies asked questions of industry expert Elizabeth Pearson. Pearson is an attorney with Pearson & Bernard in Edgewood, Ky.
11/28/2018
Assign a code for a patient’s body mass index (BMI) only when there is also a documented condition associated with the BMI that meets the definition of a reportable diagnosis, according to recently released Q4 2018 Coding Clinic guidance.

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