Home Health Line
04/04/2016
Following a recent DecisionHealth webinar about how to comply with the face-to-face requirement and avoid denials during CMS’ ongoing “probe-and-educate” review, agencies asked 11 questions to attorney Robert Markette and clinical consultant Joe Osentoski. Here are the experts’ answers.
04/04/2016
Recent data reveal that a disproportionate percentage of agencies received 4.5 or 5 stars in areas including Miami, which has a reputation for being a hotbed of fraud.
04/04/2016
Coach clinicians to remain calm, validate dementia patients’ feelings and reduce agitation when faced with accusations of stealing.
04/04/2016
Upload your contacts onto Facebook and ask those people to like your agency’s page.
04/04/2016
A five-year demonstration CMS launched Jan. 1 is supposed to show whether hospice patients benefit when they receive curative care at the same time as palliative care, contrary to the palliative-only restriction currently part of the Medicare benefit.
04/04/2016
HHS’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has initiated the long-awaited second phase of its audit program.
04/04/2016
by: Seattle-based OCS HomeCare, now part of ABILITY Network Inc.
Nationwide, a mere 11% of agencies that received star ratings for quality of care provided had a rating of 4.5 or 5. But in Miami, 32% of agencies that received star ratings had a rating of 4.5 or 5, according to an analysis from Seattle-based OCS HomeCare, now part of ABILITY Network Inc.
03/30/2016
by: Seattle-based OCS HomeCare, now a part of ABILITY Network Inc
V57 (Rehab procedures) was the most profitable ICD-10 subcategory in the first three quarters of 2015. That’s according to an OCS HomeCare analysis of assessments conducted by more than 1,800 provider locations nationwide.
03/28/2016
Coders now have their first look at the 2,670 proposed ICD-10-CM code changes that take effect Oct. 1. The changes, posted March 22, were issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in a text file on its website.
03/28/2016
Healthy Medicare profit margins of home health agencies and hospices justify omission of an inflation update for them in 2017, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) says in its latest annual report to Congress.

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