Home Health Line
01/25/2016
The HHCAHPS Data Submission Tool will be unavailable for about two weeks beginning Jan. 25 as the HHCAHPS Coordination Team transitions the tool to accept ICD-10 codes.
01/25/2016
CMS will make interim Quality Assessment Only (QAO) data available through CASPER reports that show agency performance against the QAO metric.
01/25/2016
The following data for the top five HHRGs by highest number of episodes in 2013 was released by CMS in December 2015.
01/22/2016
When answering M1306 (Unhealed pressure ulcer at Stage 2 or higher), note that pressure ulcers are not caused by friction — say in the case of what appears to be a serum-filled traumatic blister at the heel of the foot — but by pressure and shearing forces.
01/18/2016
Start collecting and organizing value-based purchasing data related to the program’s three new measures — staff flu and patient shingles vaccinations, and advanced care planning — that agencies will need to submit to CMS via a HHVBP Secure Portal beginning Oct. 1.
01/18/2016
Medicare contractors’ systems issues initially made it appear that some agencies would have to respond to more than five additional documentation requests (ADRs) involving CMS’ new nationwide “Probe and Educate Review.”
01/18/2016
Alert your referring physicians that the latest physician fee schedule makes it easier to get transitional care management (TCM) payments.
01/18/2016
CMS’ new discharge planning proposal will require significant changes for home health agencies and will be extremely time-consuming and costly for the industry.
01/18/2016
A bipartisan bill cleared by the Senate Finance Committee in December would authorize steps intended to relieve the current backlog of denied claims awaiting administrative law judge (ALJ) hearings.
01/18/2016
by: HHL’s 2016 Trends Survey
Many agencies plan to provide more QI training and have more quality reviews in an attempt to prepare for new quality initiatives such as value-based purchasing, according to 108 respondents to a question on HHL’s 2016 Trends Survey. 

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