Home Health Line
05/03/2018
For the first time, the U.S. Department of Labor is offering a program to allow home care agencies and other companies to self-disclose Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) violations in exchange for Labor waiving civil monetary penalties and liquidated damages.
05/03/2018
The hospice industry is expected to receive about $340 million in increased payments in 2019, according to CMS’ proposed hospice payment rule posted April 27 on the Federal Register. That’s nearly twice the payment increase in 2018.
05/03/2018
A new CMS analysis of 2017 fiscal year claims data shows on any given day during the last seven days of a hospice election, nearly 42% of the time the patient has not received a visit from a skilled nurse or social worker.
04/30/2018
Update policies and procedures to spell out your processes if you decide to have a therapist assess specific parts of the OASIS and then share that information with the start-of-care clinician.
04/30/2018
Break your agency’s clinicians of their mentality to rely solely on generic language or templates when it comes to plans of care. It’s vital to explain to staff that every patient is different and plans of care must be detailed, individualized and followed closely.
04/30/2018
Home health coders could have 435 ICD-10-CM code changes to deal with starting Oct. 1, with 247 new codes, 139 revised codes and 49 codes rendered invalid, according to the proposed hospital inpatient prospective payment system rule (IPPS) rule released April 24.
04/30/2018
Agencies concerned about a lack of formal OASIS guidance from CMS have a reason to celebrate — at least for now.
04/30/2018
Educate clinicians that when filling out the OASIS, they must take into account CMS’ new requirement allowing physician-ordered resumption of care (ROC) dates outside the 48-hour window for patients coming from inpatient facilities.
04/30/2018
Just 31 home health agencies have maintained a 5-star rating in quality of care during the 12 quarters the star ratings system has existed.
04/30/2018
New guidance from CMS is now available to help agencies take full advantage of user-requested CASPER reports known as Home Health Review and Correct reports.

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