Home Health Line
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.
 
05/04/2015
Make sure your agency is not leaving potentially thousands of dollars on the table by not billing for a therapy-only evaluation on Medicare claims.
 
05/04/2015
Home health agencies were affected more by face-to-face requirement changes than any other change within the 2015 PPS final rule, according to the 279 respondents to HHL’s Final Rule Impact Survey. About 54% of agencies said it was their top issue. 
 
04/27/2015
To offset case-mix losses from the 2015 final PPS rule, agencies should work to improve outcomes by providing higher quality nursing and therapy visits that in turn lead to more referrals.
 
04/27/2015
In terms of attracting patients and partnerships with a local hospital system, telehealth was crucial to the success of THA Group, a full-service home health agency in Savannah, Ga.
 
04/27/2015
Agencies should secure a line of credit if they know they won’t have at least six months of operating cash on hand to protect themselves from reduced productivity, claims delays and denials once ICD-10 is implemented.
 
04/27/2015
If your agency is losing money from case-mix changes in the final 2015 PPS rule, what should your first step be in counteracting the losses?
 
04/27/2015
CMS has significantly changed the templates it’s proposing for doctors to use when documenting face-to-face encounters.
 

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