Home Health Line
11/09/2015
CMS’ new discharge planning proposal likely will cost agencies thousands in upfront expenses, mostly from time spent documenting physician-directed updates to discharge plans and collecting 21 elements including demographics, procedures and diagnoses.
11/09/2015
Software rollout delays and glitches related to the transition to ICD-10 have limited agencies’ ability to dual code and led to claims being returned to providers.
11/09/2015
by: OCS HomeCare by National Research Corporation
Agencies in the nine states participating in CMS’ upcoming value-based purchasing payment model should compare their scores on value-based purchasing measures with their state’s median scores. 
11/02/2015
To answer Response 4 — “Chairfast, unable to ambulate but is able to wheel self independently” in M1860 (Ambulation/locomotion), clinicians must be certain that wheelchair-bound patients can be 100% independent in the use of a wheelchair.
11/02/2015
Reach out to your electronic medical records (EMR) vendor to make sure it will be prepared for the switch next year to new G codes that differentiate levels of nursing services when billing for home health and/or hospice stays.
11/02/2015
Make sure the person doing an annual check of your staff competencies is the same discipline as the staff being checked or risk getting stuck with a condition-level deficiency.
11/02/2015
When contracting with therapists, make sure the company you are contracting from receives a list from your agency regarding its required competencies.
11/02/2015
The National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) hopes its latest survey results on the limitations of non-physician practitioners (NPPs) will help push a bill through Congress that would allow NPPs to authorize and certify Medicare coverage of home health services.
11/02/2015
For private duty agencies with 50 to 99 full-time equivalent employees, the not-so-good news is that the Jan. 1, 2016, deadline for providing health insurance coverage for 95% of  those employees, as required by the Affordable Care Act (ACA), is fast approaching after a two-year delay.
11/02/2015
by: Tweed Jeffries
Nearly one third of respondents to a recent Tweed Jeffries survey said they expect an insurance enrollment rate of only 5% or less in 2016.

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