Home Health Line
04/27/2015
An April 16 hearing by the House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee confirmed member interest in bundled payments for home health and other post-acute providers.
 
04/27/2015
Either way the U.S. Court of Appeals for Washington, D.C., rules on the legality of the Labor Department’s companionship rule, the battle will likely continue.
 
04/27/2015
More than half of the agencies whose case-mix weight has decreased following the 2015 PPS Final Rule have seen a decrease of between $101 and $300.
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.
 

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