Home Health Line
11/16/2015
The average salary for home health coders is up 25% when compared to just five years ago. Salaries have continued to increase every year.
11/16/2015
A federal judge ruled Nov. 3 against the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) in its lawsuit related to the face-to-face narrative requirement. But NAHC believes the wording within the judge’s opinion could help many agencies get denials overturned.
11/16/2015
Now’s a good time to review the documentation your agency receives from physicians to certify patients’ eligibility for home health. Doing so will help you avoid additional documentation requests (ADRs) and payment denials.
11/16/2015
Home health agencies in the nine states selected for CMS’ value-based purchasing payment model should designate a value-based purchasing point of contact.
11/16/2015
During an open door forum Nov. 4, CMS explained to agencies what they should do after choosing a point of contact involving value-based purchasing.
11/16/2015
Once again, home health agencies’ questionable documentation of Medicare claims is on the radar screen of the HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG).
11/16/2015
by: DecisionHealth’s 2015 Home Health Coders’ Salary Survey
The average salary for coders/coding coordinators is nearly $57,000, while the average salary for coding supervisors is nearly $65,000, according to the 200 respondents in DecisionHealth’s 2015 Home Health Coders’ Salary Survey. 
 
11/09/2015
Agencies looking for good news in the 2016 PPS final rule won’t find much. In addition to reductions to the average episode payments, this year’s rule threatens to hit agencies’ pockets with ICD-10 coding changes and potential value-based purchasing cuts.
11/09/2015
Figure out as soon as possible if your electronic medical records (EMR) system will track the new measures to be included in CMS’ value-based purchasing model.
11/09/2015
You won’t lose case-mix points for ICD-10 diagnoses codes that fall under the definition of “initial encounter,” even if you’ve already submitted claims with these codes, according to the 2016 PPS final rule.

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