Home Health Line
04/06/2015
CMS’s final open door forum to discuss its proposed electronic and paper clinical templates has been rescheduled to 1:30 p.m. EST April 28.
 
04/06/2015
Beginning in July, agencies will have access to a free tool from quality improvement organization TMF Health Quality Institute that will help them address their risks for overpayment from Medicare, according to a report on the TMF website. 
 
04/06/2015
by: CMS
G0158 (Written plan of care established and periodically reviewed) remained the most common standard-level deficiency in 2014, followed by G0159 (Plan of care covers diagnoses, required services, visits, etc.), data CMS provided HHL show.
 
04/02/2015
Think twice before your agency unlocks an OASIS to correct minor problems such as misspelled names. Unnecessarily unlocking the OASIS could delay the claim, result in untimely submission and potentially more additional documentation requests (ADRs).
 
 
03/31/2015
CMS’s final open door forum to discuss its proposed electronic and paper clinical templates has been rescheduled to 1:30 p.m. EST April 28.
 
 
03/30/2015
CMS doesn’t require Medicare Advantage plans to demand that physicians have face-to-face encounters with plan enrollees they refer for home health. But agencies should be alert to the possibility that plans can adopt such a requirement on their own. 
 
03/30/2015
Even though a proposed track 3 for accountable care organizations (ACOs) in the Medicare shared savings program (MSSP) offers significant financial incentives, including a homebound status waiver, most ACOs will choose to remain in the less risky track 1, key industry stakeholders argue. 
 
03/30/2015
During a recent open door forum, CMS provided inaccurate information to home health agencies regarding their role in providing documentation to support certification for home health services, the federal Medicare agency acknowledged. 
 
03/30/2015
Legislation now taking shape in the House to finally do away with the flawed sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula for deciding Medicare’s physician reimbursement rates would demand less of the home health industry than feared.
 
03/30/2015
Home health agencies are at risk and potentially costing themselves thousands of dollars in incomplete or improperly coded records by not having a backup plan when their coder is out of the office sick or on vacation, according to the results of DecisionHealth’s Home Health Coders’ Productivity Survey of 230 coders.
 

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