Home Health Line
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. 
01/11/2016
One of the most significant additional burdens agencies will face if CMS’ draft OASIS-C2 becomes final is the extra time that will be involved with educating on and responding to new and changed measures at start of care (SOC)/resumption of care (ROC) assessments.
01/11/2016
As part of a monthly or quarterly quality assurance review, agencies should closely monitor compliance when it comes to timely initiation of care.
01/11/2016
The list of quality measures for home health CMS may ultimately use to help determine payments to agencies just grew six measures longer.
01/11/2016
The MUC list includes all measures under consideration by the National Quality Forum’s Measures Applications Partnership (MAP) and may be selected by CMS for national pay-for-performance and public reporting programs. Below are measures under consideration for home health and hospice.

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