Home Health Line
10/17/2024
Ensure your face-to-face encounter note — and supporting documentation — clearly show the patient’s homebound status to avoid swift claim denials for this reason. Most of the documentation from outside of your agency is not going to mention the word “homebound,”
10/17/2024
With overworked clinicians often limited in the time that they can spend with each patient, the BIMS may not provide a clear picture of cognitive status if the patient feels rushed or frustrated by the clinicians’ scheduling restraints.
10/17/2024
Coders could see new codes to capture inflammatory breast cancer if a proposal is approved as presented during the September ICD-10 Coordination and Maintenance Committee meeting. This is one of more than 35 proposals that were presented.
10/17/2024
Use this checklist to conduct a review of the face-to-face encounter note when you get the referral.
10/17/2024
Among 145 claim denials under pre-payment Targeted Probe & Educate across seven states, more than one out of every four denials were due to the face-to-face documentation.
10/10/2024
Make sure clinicians are assessing patient breathing and not just asking about breathing issues and checking off boxes when scoring for M1400.
10/10/2024
Educate your staff on Medicare payments and quality metrics to empower clinicians and build a collaborative team approach to case management.
10/10/2024
Begin preparing now for new hospice quality reporting requirements by assessing whether increased staffing and changes in visits will be needed with the HOPE tool.
10/10/2024
A new bill introduced in Congress is seeking to make the most significant changes in Medicare’s hospice benefit since its inception in 1982.
10/10/2024
Several items in the new Hospice Outcomes and Patient Evaluation (HOPE) tool will be familiar to clinicians, but key data collection time points will require some training.

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