Home Health Line
03/12/2018
CMS confirmed to HHL that the patient rights notice as detailed within the revised Home Health Conditions of Participation (CoPs) doesn’t need to be provided to patients admitted prior to Jan. 13, 2018, when the revised CoPs took effect.
03/12/2018
An OASIS-related change outlined in the revised Home Health Conditions of Participation (CoPs) has prompted CMS to tweak the logic it uses to calculate the timely initiation of care measure that appears on Home Health Compare.
03/12/2018
Data show the improper payment rate for home health claims continues to significantly improve.
03/12/2018
To avoid significant back taxes and penalties from the IRS, be sure to properly classify your workers as contractors or employees.
03/12/2018
L543 (Plan of care) was the most common citation during hospice surveys in 2017, while two other issues involving the content of the plan of care (L545 and L547) ranked among the top six, CMS data show.
03/12/2018
by: ABILITY Network
The average number of clinical case-mix points in 2017 was 4.5. It has remained relatively stable after it plummeted from 8.3 in 2014 to 4.2 in 2015, according to data from Minneapolis-based ABILITY Network Inc.
03/05/2018
During a Feb. 28 open door forum, CMS provided details about how the extension of 3% add-on payments for rural home health agencies will work.
03/05/2018
Following a recent DecisionHealth webinar about implementing a compliant performance improvement project (PIP) as part of a QAPI program, agencies asked questions of expert J’non Griffin, president of Home Health Solutions LLC in Carbon Hill, Ala. Here are some of her answers.
03/05/2018
Closely examine the nation’s new tax law and start crunching numbers with a tax professional to determine if your agency might be better off as a C corporation.
03/05/2018
Agencies are experiencing an uptick in claims reviews from auditing companies working for insurers offering Medicare Advantage (MA). And the number of MA claims reviewed is sure to become more plentiful in the coming years as MA itself continues expanding at a massive rate, industry experts say.

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