Home Health Line
05/11/2015
A requirement for agencies to obtain at least $50,000 in surety bond coverage — recently signed into law by President Barack Obama as part of the “doc-fix” legislation — would become a home health condition of participation if CMS decides to adopt a regulation to make that happen. 
 
05/11/2015
A recent cyberattack on a private duty agency should serve as a reminder to conduct regular system backups and take other steps to protect your agency from ransomware, a new trend in hacking.
 
05/11/2015
When gathering the proper documentation for injury codes in ICD-10 related to fractures, make sure intake and field clinicians obtain information about the timing of the encounter and whether it is open or closed to code the seventh character.
 
05/11/2015
by: HHL’s Home Health ICD-10 Readiness Survey
Nearly half of the respondents to HHL’s new ICD-10 preparedness say they already have identidied identified resources. And nearly half of respondents say they have created a project team, HHL’s Home Health ICD-10 Readiness Survey show. 
05/11/2015
Home health agencies now firmly believe that they must treat ICD-10 as a priority — and that the code set won’t be delayed again.
 
05/04/2015
Months after CMS revamped its face-to-face requirements, agencies have felt the effects — and many believe things are worse now than before. 
 
05/04/2015
Make sure your employee wellness program doesn’t offer incentives exceeding 30% of the total cost of employee-only insurance coverage. Otherwise your agency could essentially be making participation a requirement and wind up facing a costly lawsuit.
 
05/04/2015
Clinicians who find that two pressure ulcers have deteriorated so there is no longer any tissue separating the ulcers should stage the single ulcer at its worst stage when answering M1308 (Current number of unhealed pressure ulcers at each stage).
 
05/04/2015
Do your Home Health Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HHCAHPS) results published on Home Health Compare sometimes not match results HHCAHPS vendor survey results? Ever wonder why?
 
05/04/2015
The latest Senate Finance Committee look at the still-growing backlog of disputed Medicare claim denials showed that Congress is well aware of the problem for providers — and also has divergent opinions about how to fund the hearing magistrates and additional administrative law judges (ALJs) needed to shrink the pending cases.
 

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