Home Health Line
08/28/2017
Agencies should educate staff and patients now to ensure compliance with new complaint process expectations outlined in the revised Home Health Conditions of Participation (CoPs).
08/28/2017
By keeping patients better informed about when clinicians will arrive, agencies can improve their performance on two low-scoring HHCAHPS questions. Such an improvement could raise your agency’s HHCAHPS results and star rating, something referral sources strongly consider.
08/28/2017
The 2018 proposed PPS rule for home health details a new payment system coming to the industry in 2019. Attorney Robert Markette of Indianapolis-based Hall, Render, Killian, Heath & Lyman offered HHL the following insights about how the Home Health Groupings Model (HHGM) will affect agencies.
08/28/2017
CMS is preparing to cancel four mandatory episode payment models for common cardiac and orthopedic conditions, according to a proposed rule posted Aug. 15. The models had been due to begin in January.
08/28/2017
CMS has decided to prevent Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs) and other reviewers from hiring any new LPNs to perform complex medical reviews to make coverage determinations.
08/28/2017
CMS’ inaugural release of Hospice Compare uncovers several opportunities for hospices to stand apart from competition. Among them: Ensuring patients treated with an opioid are given a bowel regimen.
08/28/2017
Six of the seven measures within the initial release of Hospice Compare earned scores of 93.3% or higher. However, a measure involving pain assessments only scored 77.7%.
08/25/2017
by: CMS
CMS has posted the following Q&As on a new webpage to better explain maintenance therapy and the Jimmo settlement agreement.
08/24/2017
If you’re one of the agencies that had high denial rates in CMS’ probe-and-educate review, brace yourself. Some agencies will have 20 to 40 claims reviewed for face-to-face documentation among other things this fall as part of CMS’ next step in the probe-and-educate process.
08/21/2017
by: Katherine J. Vanderhorst and Amy Craven
As part of a routine assessment for all patients, agencies should begin conducting a Brief Interview for Mental Status (BIMS) to detect patients’ cognitive impairments.

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