Home Health Line
12/04/2017
Home health coders are completing more charts per day than they did a year ago, but the specific number of charts appears to vary depending on several factors, including — but not limited to — workload, time requirements, levels of review and individual coders’ abilities.
12/04/2017
Ensure all individual members of multidisciplinary teams work toward a common goal to ensure patients’ pain lessens throughout the episode.
12/04/2017
Without swift movement from Congress in the next few months, nearly 800,000 people protected by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) will be forced to leave the workforce and the country.
12/04/2017
Employers under federal OSHA jurisdiction, which includes many home health agencies, have until Dec. 15 to learn how to use the agency’s new electronic injury reporting system.
12/04/2017
by: DecisionHealth’s 2017 Home Health Coders’ Productivity Survey
Coders who perform a full OASIS review are only able to complete two-thirds of the number of charts as those coders who perform coding and a partial OASIS review.
12/01/2017
CMS has finalized its plan to cancel four mandatory episode payment models for common cardiac and orthopedic conditions, according to a rule posted Nov. 30. The models had been due to begin in January.
12/01/2017
Following a recent DecisionHealth webinar about the draft interpretive guidelines on the revised Home Health Conditions of Participation (CoPs), agencies asked questions to attorney Robert Markette of Indianapolis-based Hall, Render, Killian, Heath & Lyman. Here is his answer to a question about patient rights.
11/20/2017
Many agencies are expressing deep concern about the lack of detail — and confusing details — within portions of CMS’ long-awaited draft version of the interpretive guidelines for the revised Home Health Conditions of Participation (CoPs).
11/20/2017
Conduct a detailed nutritional assessment for all your home health patients. Ensuring patients have proper nutrition will help prevent them from developing wounds and/or infections that could lead to rehospitalizations, industry experts say.
11/20/2017
Home health agencies and other providers with a low volume of pending appeals at the administrative law judge (ALJ) level now have a new option available to them to get out of the massive appeals backlog.

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