Home Health Line
08/24/2015
Take another look at the fine print if your agency has one or more Medicare Advantage (MA) contracts. Recent demands by MA plans for proof that home health visits are justified — such as requiring a social worker to evaluate a patient — suggest that the plans are scrutinizing costs more intensively than ever before.
 
08/24/2015
Many health care vendors are fully complete with product development in preparation for ICD-10, results of the June 2015 Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) ICD-10 Survey show.
08/24/2015
by: HHL’s 2015 Productivity Survey
The data below show the required number of visits per day performed by discipline, compared with the actual number of visits per day performed. 
08/24/2015
A discharge OASIS is not required in order to bill Medicare for a single, skilled visit. A story in HHL’s June 22 issue did not include this detail.
08/17/2015
by: Home Health ICD-10 Readiness Survey
More than three-quarters of agencies are using printed materials, such as books and guides, for OASIS-C1 training, according to the 200 respondents to a question on a recent Home Health ICD-10 Readiness Survey. 
08/17/2015
Many agencies are opting for alternative methods of training when it comes to bringing employees up to speed on regulatory issues. 
 
08/17/2015
One word — document — was a major focus during oral arguments Aug. 6 in the National Association for Home Care & Hospice’s (NAHC) lawsuit battling the face-to-face requirement.
 
08/17/2015
Use your electronic medical records (EMR) to label patients receiving aftercare for joint replacement surgeries. That one step could mean more medical centers send these patients to your agency rather than a skilled nursing facility (SNF). 
 
08/17/2015
It’s still unclear at this point how the elimination of the face-to-face narrative requirement will affect agencies in terms of future denials.
 
08/17/2015
Agencies will continue to go without extra reimbursement for common psych diagnoses like depression when ICD-10 is implemented. But don’t let that stop you from coding an important part of a patient’s care, as it will only confirm CMS’ suspicion that these conditions don’t impact resource use. 
 

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