Home Health Line
07/04/2016
by: CMS
View this tool to evaluate the major provisions of the proposed 2017 PPS rule.
07/04/2016
by: CMS
The following table contains the list of 20 measures CMS is seeking to use to guage performance and base payment adjustments related to value-based purchasing.
06/30/2016
No specific form will be created for CMS’ new pre-claim review demonstration. Instead, Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs) may develop checklists as a guide agencies can choose to use when providing pre-claim review requests. 
06/27/2016
Medicare’s attempts to reduce the massive backlog of appeals aren’t working, a new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) indicates.
06/27/2016
Agencies should now code E11.40 (Type 2 diabetes mellitus with diabetic neuropathy, unspecified) for a patient who has diagnoses of diabetes and neuropathy, even if there’s no specified confirmatory link in the record, according to the Q2 2016 Coding Clinic update.
06/27/2016
To avoid the panic that might ensue when patients begin to receive letters stating that their home care services are not covered, agencies in the states where the pre-claim review is taking place need to start educating their patients.
06/27/2016
When two clinicians from your agency speak about coordination of care for a patient, each clinician should document details of the conversation in the patient’s record.
06/27/2016
Home care agencies should have protocols in place to give guidance and ensure correct documentation when a patient’s insurance changes after submission of the OASIS assessment.
06/27/2016
by: CMS
G0158 (Written plan of care established and periodically reviewed) remained the most common standard-level deficiency in 2015, followed by G0159 (Plan of care covers diagnoses, required services, visits, etc.), data CMS provided HHL show.
06/24/2016
Read the defendan'ts response in the Jimmo case.

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