Home Health Line
10/05/2015
A recent $6-million U.S. District court settlement involving a hospice should serve as a reminder to closely monitor who qualifies for continuous care.
10/05/2015
The Office of Medicare Hearings and Appeals (OMHA) is expanding a pilot project designed to reduce the massive backlog of appeals at the administrative law judge (ALJ) level.
10/05/2015
Home health agencies have two payment rates to consider when providing the flu vaccine to patients this season. The first is payment for the vaccine, and the other is payment to administer the vaccine.
10/05/2015
U.S. House and Senate members have sent letters to CMS regarding concerns they have with the 2016 proposed home health PPS rule.
10/05/2015
Three associations have asked U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts to delay enforcement of a court ruling that extends Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) protections to about 1.9 million home care workers.
10/05/2015
by: National Research Corporation
So far this year, M1041 (Influenza vaccine data collection period) has been answered incorrectly 17.5% of the time, data from Seattle-based National Research Corporation show.
09/28/2015
CMS is offering ICD-10 submission alternatives for agencies having issues with their billing software and vendors submitting claims beginning Oct. 1. And the complexity of these alternatives has led some industry experts to recommend that agencies consider billing clearinghouses.
09/28/2015
ICD-10 vendors say they’ve prepared providers for the Oct. 1 start of the new ICD-10 coding system, but questions remain about the readiness of state Medicaid programs and private insurers.
09/28/2015
Run code verification tests immediately on your agency’s electronic health records (EHR) system to determine its state of ICD-10 preparedness.
09/28/2015
Getting OTs involved in helping a patient improve in bathing has led one agency to stand out nationally on bathing care. And that’s increasing in importance since M1830 (bathing) is slated to be a measure that will be used to determine payouts in CMS’ proposed value-based purchasing model, slated to begin in January.

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