Home Health Line
06/29/2015
CMS has clarified the definitions of hospice admission and discharge in order to help hospices understand when to complete and submit the Hospice Item Set (HIS).
 
 
06/29/2015
CMS recently provided guidance to hospices about how to conduct separate patient satisfaction surveys in addition to the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) Hospice Survey.
 
 
06/29/2015
Private duty agencies that contract with Medicaid to provide home support services for beneficiaries soon may be saddled with a requirement for fingerprint-based background checks.
 
 
06/29/2015
A new, comprehensive falls prevention intervention developed and studied at the behest of the Department of Health and Human Services between 2008 and 2012 was found to have reduced falls risk by 11% in the first year following the intervention.
06/29/2015
Congress appears poised to let the ICD-10 code set take effect Oct. 1, despite legislation that would introduce grace periods for providers.
 
 
06/29/2015
by: National Research Corporation, Seattle
Agencies planning to rely upon the general equivalency mappings (GEMs) could wind up costing themselves a lot of money in ICD-10.
 
 
06/29/2015
by: Trish Twombly
Use this ICD-10 readiness checklist to prepare for the new code set.
06/26/2015
CMS is seeking to develop a new medication reconciliation measure to be used in all post-acute care settings, including home health, and is looking for home health and quality improvement experts to provide advice on the measure’s creation. Experts can nominate themselves or others by June 30 to take part.
 
 
06/22/2015
If you want to secure your inflation update in the future, make sure you maintain a 90% compliance rate for submitting quality assessments.
 
06/22/2015
Forget the additional Medicare business agencies might gain if they were allowed to monitor post-acute enrollees in accountable care organizations (ACOs) who weren’t homebound. 
 

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