Home Health Line
09/02/2016
The following are additional pre-claim review questions posed to consultants Arlene Maxim and Rebecca Friedman Zuber.
09/02/2016
Following a recent DecisionHealth webinar about the pre-claim review, HHL asked questions to consultants Arlene Maxim and Rebecca Friedman Zuber. Here are their answers.
09/01/2016
CMS is floating the idea of revising the prospective payment system for the home health industry, and the contractor it hired detailed one possible model Aug. 23.
09/01/2016
The HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR), right on the heels of its recent clarification that providers need to treat ransomware attacks as potential breaches of HIPAA, has advised agencies and other entities to assess whether they’re capable of responding to a cybersecurity incident.
08/29/2016
Stress to clinicians the importance of asking patients suffering from pneumonia whether they’re wearing their oxygen equipment and using their inhalers.
08/29/2016
Nearly 21% of pneumonia patients receiving home health care were rehospitalized within 30 days of hospital release during the first five months of 2016, according to OCS HomeCare, now a part of ABILITY Network. 
08/29/2016
Commenters on the 2017 proposed PPS rule for home health expressed significant concern with two items: Changes in payment for disposable negative pressure wound treatment devices and in the way CMS calculates outlier payments.
08/29/2016
In its Aug. 19 comments about the 2017 proposed PPS rule for home health, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) expressed concern to CMS that reductions in home health payments “are too small.”
08/29/2016
The good news for home care providers in the current presidential contest is the Republican and Democratic party platforms contain strong endorsements of government help for seniors who choose to continue living in their own homes.
08/29/2016
Following a recent DecisionHealth webinar about the new National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel (NPUAP) wound guidance, agencies asked eight questions to consultant Ann Rambusch. Here are her answers.

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