Home Health Line
12/05/2016
A new change request from CMS educates Medicare contractors about the implementation of a separate payment for agencies involving disposable negative pressure wound therapy devices.
12/05/2016
by: ABILITY Network, Inc., Minneapolis
The 30-day rehospitalization rate for urinary tract infection (UTI) patients within 30 days of hospital discharge is 0.6%, while the 60-day hospitalization rate is 1.1%, according to data from Minneapolis-based ABILITY Network, Inc.
12/05/2016
by: Diane Link
Use these sample infection control forms for patients and clinicians.
12/05/2016
Educate patients who just underwent coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery that they need to take it easy and pace themselves when they come home from the hospital to avoid a readmission. Special care for CABG patients is something that hospital referral sources will be paying more attention to now that their payment is linked to these diagnoses.
12/01/2016
New data show agencies continue to struggle with coding congestive heart failure (CHF) under ICD-10. And that’s a major concern because use of the unspecified code associated with heart failure — a common primary diagnosis in home health — could lead to additional documentation requests and ultimately denials.
12/01/2016
by: 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.
11/29/2016
by: CMS
View examples CMS has provided hospices of the narrative for a physician certification.
11/22/2016
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.
11/22/2016
A new change request from CMS educates Medicare contractors about the implementation of a separate payment for agencies involving disposable negative pressure wound therapy devices.
11/22/2016
The Republican-controlled Congress and White House won’t be able to erase the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in its entirety, House Republican aides suggest, which means the home health industry may have to lobby on its own to erase the ACA’s face-to-face requirement.

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