Home Health Line
03/07/2016
by: HHL's ICD-10 Impact Survey
About 24% of agencies suffered a coder productivity decrease of 10 % to 19% in the wake of ICD-10’s Oct. 1 implementation, according to the 168 respondents to HHL’s ICD-10 Impact Survey. About 19% of respondents suffered a productivity drop of 20% to 29%.
02/29/2016
Make sure your RNs conduct supervisory visits of hospice aides at patients’ homes at least once every two weeks.
02/29/2016
by: CMS
State surveyors issued far more citations to hospices in 2015 than in 2014, CMS data show.
02/29/2016
In the early going of CMS’ new nationwide home health “Probe and Educate Review,” nearly 90% of claims have been denied.
02/29/2016
There’s a stunning lack of awareness among many heart patients immediately after leaving the hospital. Patients might return home and not be sure why they had been admitted to the hospital in the first place. They also might not be aware there’s a connection between having trouble breathing and having a cardiac condition.
02/29/2016
Agencies should consider buying mobile hotspot devices as a way to connect clinicians to the Internet at patients’ homes and improve the security of information clinicians transmit from those homes via cell phone, tablet and/or laptop.
02/29/2016
Alert your agency’s billers to watch for a new condition code for reporting subsequent episodes with no skilled visits, and avoid claims rejections.
02/29/2016
Proposed changes for Medicare Advantage in 2017 would result in a 1.35% net payment impact on average for the plans.
02/25/2016
by: OCS HomeCare, now a part of the ABILITY Network
The average of clinical case-mix points dipped slightly to 3.98 in the fourth quarter in 2015, down from 4.28 the prior quarter.
02/22/2016
CMS has issued a final 60-day overpayment rule, formally called Reporting and Returning of Overpayments.

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