Home Health Line
04/23/2015
Agencies nationwide saw a percentage-point improvement in pneumococcal vaccine ever received, diabetic foot care and education and improvement in management or oral medications for CMS’ April 16 release of Home Health Compare data.
 
04/20/2015
Start dual coding charts now and track the extra time it takes to assign ICD-10 codes to help determine what additional resources you’ll need to lessen the impact on your productivity.
 
04/20/2015
Ask your data vendor to send you patient comments as soon as possible to improve the “would patients recommend” score on Home Health Compare.
 
04/20/2015
More than one-third of midsized private duty agencies remain undecided about whether to offer employees health insurance despite the Affordable Care Act (ACA) employer insurance mandate being months away.
 
04/20/2015
Medicare auditors will now be able to upcode or downcode claims when they believe providers have selected the wrong code but a payable service was rendered, according to a new CMS transmittal.
 
04/20/2015
For the first time, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has released steps for health care providers to establish workplace violence programs and checklists to identify and fix gaps in protection. 
 
04/20/2015
Providers are getting better at transmitting claims with ICD-10 codes on them, and Medicare administrative contractors are getting better at processing them, CMS concluded after the latest round of acknowledgement testing last month.
 
04/20/2015
by: Home Care Pulse
Nearly 36% of agencies with 51 to 100 full-time equivalent employees have not decided whether to offer employees health insurance, according to 701 respondents to Home Care Pulse’s 2015 Private Duty Benchmarking Study. Meanwhile, about 29% of agencies of this size have decided to provide the required health insurance plan for all employees working 30 or more hours per week. 
04/20/2015
by: Home Care Pulse
More than 70% of the agencies that participated in Home Care Pulse’s 2015 Private Duty Benchmarking Study feel the Affordable Care Act (ACA) causes a negative or highly negative impact. No agencies feel the ACA has had a highly positive impact. 
04/13/2015
Examine your preadmission screening questions — and the questions you address during recertifications — to ensure that diabetic patients truly need help with insulin injections. Doing so and documenting answers to those questions will allow your agency to avoid costly denials.
 

Login

User Name:
Password: