Home Health Line
08/17/2015
by: Joe Maddaloni
Agencies that use independent contractors should immediately evaluate whether these employees really would be considered in business for themselves and thus exempt from minimum wage and overtime requirements.
 
08/10/2015
Give your doctors documentation tip cards or checklists for common home health diagnoses. Doing so will save home health coders and nurses time.
 
08/10/2015
CMS will move forward with restructuring the way it pays hospices, resulting in the first major payment change in more than 30 years. 
 
08/10/2015
CMS will have to be more explicit about what Medicaid managed care plans should pay providers of home support services to keep frail beneficiaries out of nursing homes.
 
08/10/2015
The findings from two recent audits by the HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) may lead to a more concerted effort by CMS to get surveyors to focus on worker qualifications. The OIG audits found that some home health aides surveyed lacked basic education and in-service training.
 
08/10/2015
Medicare administrative contractors’ local coverage determinations (LCDs) with ICD-10 codes are available for you to review on the CMS coverage database website. You’ll need to know what codes the contractors require for billing in ICD-10. 
 
08/10/2015
Solicit caregiver feedback in the form of a single question to your caregivers as part of your agency’s processes to improve staff retention rates. 
 
08/10/2015
The data below show the average number of visits per day performed by discipline.
 
08/10/2015
About 41% of agencies don’t expect their clinicians’ productivity to decline due to ICD-10, according to the 142 respondents to a question on HHL’s 2015 Productivity Survey. 
 
08/10/2015
by: Arlene Maxim
Use this ICD-10 documentation checklist as a guide when you create an agency-specific checklist to provide office managers and discharge planners. Doing so will educate them about what documentation your agency will need in order to code properly after ICD-10 is implemented Oct. 1, 2015. 
 

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