Home Health Line
03/21/2016
by: HHL's ICD-10 Impact Survey
About 40% of agencies suffered a clinician productivity decrease due to ICD-10, according to the 161 respondents to a question on HHL’s ICD-10 Impact Survey.
03/21/2016
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.
03/21/2016
by: OCS, now part of ABILITY Network Inc.
The actual reimbursement for home health agencies for PPS episodes in the fourth quarter of 2015 was $3,080. That’s $24 more than for episodes in the prior quarter.
03/21/2016
by: OCS HomeCare, now part of ABILITY Network Inc.
Nationwide, 38% of agencies that received star ratings for patients’ experiences of care provided had a rating of 5. But in Miami, 76% of agencies that received star ratings had a rating of 5, according to an analysis from Seattle-based OCS HomeCare, now part of ABILITY Network Inc.
03/14/2016
CMS has failed to update its policy manual and take other necessary actions to stop wrongful denials of claims for patients who require maintenance coverage.
03/14/2016
Audit your coding with a particular focus on Z codes and any specific diagnoses your agency codes with great frequency. Track your error rate by coder and diagnosis, and address those issues with specific training.
03/14/2016
Keep some essential advanced wound care supplies, such as foam and anti-microbial dressings and petroleum-based gauzes, in your agency’s formulary in order to improve healing times and reduce nursing utilization.
03/14/2016
It may not seem like an important step to take after setting up a new website or updating your current site, but agencies that don’t ensure their websites are properly maintained on a monthly basis risk opening themselves up to everything from data breaches to being barred from Google searches for being an unsafe site.
03/14/2016
The death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia may doom the private duty industry’s already uphill battle involving the companionship services exemption.
03/14/2016
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s death may throw into limbo several cases that affect home health and private duty agencies.

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