Home Health Line
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. 
 
08/03/2015
Agencies should audit 100% of their claims for coding accuracy beginning Aug. 3 in preparation for the implementation of ICD-10. Doing so could help agencies identify and resolve issues in processes so that they will get paid properly and avoid billing delays when the code set begins Oct. 1. 
 
08/03/2015
Clinicians answering M1860 (Ambulation/Locomotion) should pay close attention to whether patients are safely using one hand or two as they use assistive devices such as knee scooters.
 
08/03/2015
The 21st Century Cures Act could be a step in the direction of a goal long sought by the home health industry — Medicare reimbursement for telehealth costs agencies incur.
 
08/03/2015
CMS is embarking on an experiment that will allow an estimated 150,000 beneficiaries, who physicians have diagnosed as terminal, to receive curative care at the same time as palliative care.
 

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