Home Health Line
07/25/2016
A lack of training is leading some hospices to incorrectly compute continuous home care hours or provide documentation that doesn’t support why a patient needs such care, Palmetto says in a recently recorded 6-minute video.
07/25/2016
Inpatient hospices and other health care organizations received a reprieve — until Nov. 1 — to meet the new requirements for fire safety. The new deadline set by CMS applies to surveys only.
07/25/2016
The latest HHCAHPS star ratings, released July 13, show an increase in the number of five-star agencies nationwide in patient satisfaction.
07/25/2016
by: CMS
There are 317 agencies nationwide that earned five stars in the ratings system involving quality of care, according to ratings released July 13. Meanwhile, 834 agencies received 4.5 stars.
07/25/2016
by: Home Health Compare
Agencies have made strides on Home Health Compare measures included within value-based purchasing, according to the latest data released in July 2016.
07/25/2016
The five-state demonstration involving pre-claim reviews for home health claims “is being implemented in a manner wholly inconsistent with Medicare law, the Administrative Procedures Act and the Small Business Regulatory Flexibility Act,” the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) contends.
07/22/2016
Use the following process when participating in CMS' pre-claim review demo.
07/18/2016
When a Stage 3 or Stage 4 wound has epithelialized, clinicians should no longer report it as an unhealed pressure ulcer. The impact of that could be a reduction of hundreds of dollars per episode.
07/18/2016
CMS recently made clear that when submitting documentation for its new pre-claim review demonstration, agencies need to include a plan of care signed and dated by the physician. That’s bad news that could delay payments since agencies generally wait many weeks for doctors to examine the plan of care and return a signed copy.
07/18/2016
A physician must provide the diagnosis of diabetes or peripheral artery disease/peripheral vascular disease (PAD/PVD), and then it must be determined the diagnosis is active in order to answer positively in M1028 (Active diagnoses), according to the OASIS-C2 guidance manual released in June.

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