Home Health Line
08/14/2017
Fully optimizing your electronic medical records (EMR) system and cross-training staff can help speed up your agency’s billing processes. Industry experts say focusing on improvements in these key areas could potentially allow agencies to submit bills a week sooner.
08/14/2017
CMS has withdrawn its proposal to have accrediting organizations such as The Joint Commission post the details of survey reports online.
08/14/2017
One private duty agency’s implementation of a specialty Parkinson’s program has shown strong results both with client outcomes and revenue.
08/14/2017
by: The Financial Monitor
Days sales outstanding (DSO) has been creeping up for commercial payers, likely in part due to tighter authorization requirements from commercial insurers, according to Simione Healthcare Consultants. The following data from The Financial Monitor, a Hamden, Conn.-based benchmarking service of Simione show how many days it took to collect payments in the first quarter of 2017 and 2016. The data represent more than 400 agencies.
08/14/2017
by: Katherine Vanderhorst and Amy Craven
Another test that agencies can use, the “Mini-cog,” takes three to five minutes to administer. The test is used to screen for cognitive impairment using a three-item recall test and a clock drawing test.
08/09/2017
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).
08/07/2017
Utilize a new CMS tool to determine how much your agency would get paid for the care patients receive under the Home Health Groupings Model (HHGM) compared to what your agency currently is paid under the PPS.
08/07/2017
Twenty-seven of the 51 categories from which diagnoses codes and OASIS responses can earn case-mix points may lose points come Jan. 1, 2018.
08/07/2017
One takeaway from the 2018 proposed PPS rule is that value-based purchasing isn’t going anywhere, industry experts say.
08/07/2017
Educate clinicians about the major quality measure changes CMS announced it plans to make to comply with the IMPACT Act.

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