Home Health Line
01/30/2017
Most Illinois HomeCare and Hospice Council member agencies are now submitting 100% of their episodes for pre-claim review, although some are still struggling to stay current due to the volume of paperwork.
01/30/2017
Sparta Community Hospital’s At-Home Healthcare is among the few agencies in Illinois to maintain a 100% affirmation rate as part of pre-claim reviews.
01/26/2017
It’s vital to conduct mock surveys for your agency and when doing so to perform five to 10 home visits, depending on your unduplicated admissions for the past 12 months. That’s roughly the same number of visits a surveyor would perform.
01/26/2017
by: Home Health Solutions
Consider adapting your agency's patient consent form to comply with a new standard within the revised CoPs.
01/26/2017
Revise the job responsibility of your agency’s clinical manager to ensure she proactively discusses patient outcomes and reviews documentation including the plan of care of each patient with the case manager.
01/26/2017
by: CMS
G0158 (Written plan of care established and periodically reviewed) remained the most common standard-level deficiency in 2016, followed by G0159 (Plan of care covers diagnoses, required services, visits, etc.), data CMS provided HHL show.
01/23/2017
The vast majority of home health agencies failed during the first round of CMS’ probe-and-educate review and thus will be subjected to a second round announced at the end of 2016, new data from the Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs) show.
01/23/2017
In the early stages of the transition to OASIS-C2, industry experts encourage agency leaders to focus training on a few items that could impact their bottom lines.
01/23/2017
Pay close attention to how clinical supervisors’ time is spent. Consider whether certain tasks to move documents through the revenue cycle could be performed instead by clerical staff or quality improvement staff.
01/23/2017
Many experts believe business owners can breathe a sigh of relief when the new Labor Secretary, Andrew Puzder, takes office.

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