Home Health Line
08/15/2016
How the HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) decided Excellent Home Care Services, a Brooklyn, N.Y., agency, should repay more than $7.5 million in Medicare overpayments is yet another lesson in the government’s use of a small claims sample to produce an eye-popping bill for providers.
08/15/2016
Check for greater specificity when auditing patient goals, progress and medical diagnosis in therapy documentation. Doing so will reduce the potential for denials in ICD-10.
08/15/2016
The role of franchisers in the market for private duty home support services is growing at a pace that owners of independent agencies can’t ignore.
08/15/2016
by: OCS HomeCare, now a part of the ABILITY Network
The average number of clinical case-mix points plummeted to 4.17 in 2015 from 8.27 in 2014, according to data from Seattle-based OCS HomeCare, now a part of the ABILITY Network.
08/15/2016
by: OSHA
View this checklist OSHA released about workplace violence.
08/12/2016
by: OCS HomeCare, now a part of the ABILITY Network
More than 30% of pneumonia patients receiving home health care were rehospitalized within 60 days of release from the hospital during the first five months of 2016, according to OCS HomeCare, now a part of ABILITY Network.
08/08/2016
While many Home Health Compare measures involved in value-based purchasing are improving, one has shown a steady decline. For five straight quarters, agencies nationwide have earned worse scores on the measure asking how often the home health team made sure patients received a flu shot for the current flu season.
08/08/2016
A proposed rule published on the Federal Register July 25 would add bundled payment models for episodes involving acute myocardial infarctions (AMIs), coronary artery bypass grafting and surgical hip/femur fracture treatment excluding lower extremity joint replacement.
08/08/2016
Joint replacement surgeries have been slowly migrating from inpatient-only procedures to the outpatient setting. That trend, coupled with CMS’ new model tying Medicare reimbursement for surgery to patient outcomes, may mean increasing opportunities for home care agencies to serve that patient population.
08/08/2016
Eight new codes for specific forms of cognitive sequelae following a stroke, such as I69.311 (Memory deficit following cerebral infarction), are eligible for case-mix points when they go into effect Oct. 1, according to the Grouper update, released July 21.

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