Home Health Line
03/23/2015
A recent CMS transmittal to Medicare administrative contractors (MACs) provides yet another indication that ICD-10 is coming and agencies need to prepare or else. 
 
03/23/2015
The Medicare profit margins enjoyed by home health agencies continue to justify a process of rebasing payments, starting with a 4-percent reduction in payments, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) concludes in its latest annual report to Congress on Medicare reimbursement.
 
03/23/2015
by: CMS
The most common condition-level deficiencies continue to involve acceptance of patients, plan of care and medical supervision. G0156 remained the most common deficiency in 2014, followed by G0122 (Organization, services and administration).
 
03/23/2015
by: CMS
CMS recently released the following scenarios as a way agencies could gather documentation from physicians to justify face-to-face requirements.
03/16/2015
Home care groups and hospital networks commenting on CMS’ proposed amendments for accountable care organizations (ACOs) in the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) like the idea of granting ACOs the right to claim home health payments for care of non-homebound patients. CMS proposed this concept for its new test of how acute and post-acute providers can work together to reduce hospitalizations.
 
03/16/2015
by: Laura Montalvo
Face-to-face documentation expert Laura Montalvo, chief clinical officer for Anaheim, Calif.-based SelectData, recently held a webinar for DecisionHealth on how to address CMS’ recent face-to-face documentation requirement changes.
 
03/16/2015
CMS is continuing to tweak the templates it’s proposing for doctors to use when documenting face-to-face encounters.
 
03/16/2015
Identify which diagnoses are leading to the most readmissions for your local hospitals and show how you can help improve hospital compare numbers for those hospitals.
 
03/16/2015
More agencies are focusing on warning patients on oxygen about the risk of serious burns or even death when they light up cigarettes or cover their oxygen tanks with a blanket that can absorb dangerous amounts of the therapeutic gas. 
 
03/16/2015
Make sure your clinicians understand CMS guidance that an ostomy is not considered a surgical wound for the purposes of answering M1340 (Surgical wound).
 

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