Home Health Line
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.
11/21/2016
HHS says the backlog of denied Medicare claims awaiting an Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) hearing is shrinking at a rate that now means it will be gone completely by the end of fiscal 2019 — two years earlier than originally anticipated.
11/21/2016
At least in the short term, a recent court ruling could lead to a more stringent interpretation of a Medicare standard for the timing of obtaining physician signatures. It also could lead to more whistleblower cases. 
11/21/2016
Clients have unique circumstances and specific sets of expectations for the care they receive. Meeting those expectations can be a challenge.
11/21/2016
What appeared to be perplexing in the 2017 PPS final rule — the addition back of points to the previously-gutted equations for pulmonary disorders — now makes sense. These diagnoses completely lost eligibility for clinical points two years ago, but now they have the potential to earn one point depending on episode timing and therapy utilization.
11/21/2016
The HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) will turn its attention next year to the frequency with which hospice RNs conduct supervisory visits of aides, according to its new work plan published Nov. 10.
11/21/2016
Train clinicians how to ask whether patients have lost interest in activities or if they have been feeling sad.
11/21/2016
by: 2016 Home Care Benchmarking Study, Home Care Pulse, Rexburg, Idaho
To gather information about client satisfaction, about 40% of agencies mail surveys sent by internal staff. That’s according to Home Care Pulse’s 2016 Home Care Benchmarking Study.

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