Home Health Line
12/12/2016
Closely examine new CMS guidance explaining what complete, written certifications from physicians must include. Also, review your hospice’s election statement and ensure it includes the information CMS provided within a new sample statement.
12/12/2016
Agencies have improved the way they code strokes under ICD-10, newly released data show.
12/12/2016
A new change request from CMS seeks to resolve a problem that has caused many hospices to be slammed with thousands of dollars in lost revenue.
12/12/2016
by: Minneapolis-based ABILITY Network, Inc.
I50.- (Heart failure) is the second most common primary diagnosis home health agencies use under ICD-10, according to first and second quarter 2016 data from Minneapolis-based ABILITY Network. Roughly half the time agencies use I50.-, they use a 9 in the fourth position.
12/12/2016
by: CMS
View a sample hospice election statement.
12/05/2016
After your agency tracks infection control data and identifies trends, it’s important to investigate causation versus correlation.
12/05/2016
Agencies that already increased employees’ salaries to avoid a new federal requirement to pay them overtime beginning Dec. 1 should strongly consider whether that decision still makes sense.
12/05/2016
Carefully capture your patients’ height and weight to ensure CMS accurately risk adjusts for pressure ulcers later.
12/05/2016
Alert clinicians and billers that CMS is adding new G codes to show whether skilled services are delivered by RNs or LPNs and that failure to use these codes could result in claims rejections.
12/05/2016
An upcoming quality measures (QM) report will provide hospices with greater detail than they’ve ever seen on the Hospice Item Set (HIS).

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