Home Health Line
09/29/2014
Fewer than half of the denials Medicare administrative contractor (MAC) Palmetto GBA has issued in recent months were for face-to-face encounter requirements not met, new data show. This continues a downward trend in the percentage of overall denials the MAC is issuing for that reason.
 
09/29/2014
Claims delays and denials are the top concern agencies have about the ICD-10 transition, according to the 248 respondents to a recent HHL survey. 
 
 
09/29/2014
Nearly one quarter of agencies won’t make ICD-10 a priority again until the first quarter of 2015, according to the 248 respondents to HHL’s recent Home Health ICD-10 Readiness Survey.
 
 
09/22/2014
Several home health disciplines, including nursing and therapy, aren’t currently meeting their agency’s productivity goals.
 
09/22/2014
Uncle Sam is taking new actions against hospice admission of patients not sick enough to qualify for end-of-life care. 
 
09/22/2014
A deal recently extended by CMS to acute care and critical access hospitals to withdraw pending claim denial appeals in return for partial payment could reduce the time that home health agencies must wait for appeals to be heard by administrative law judges (ALJs).
 
 
09/22/2014
Remodeling a stagnant or flawed telehealth program can turn a failure into a success and ultimately reduce your agency’s rehospitalization rates.
 
 
09/22/2014
Starting Oct. 1, hospices may no longer assign specific dementia codes as a primary diagnosis on a hospice claim form, according to CMS Transmittal 3032/Change Request 8877, published on Aug. 22.
 
 
09/22/2014
For hospice patients who received care from Jan. 1, 2014, through June 30, 2014, the average length of stay for non-cancer patients within Medicare administrative contractor Palmetto GBA’s coverage area was 140 days, according to Palmetto data. The average length of stay during the same timeframe in 2013 was 134 days.
 
 
09/22/2014
The data below show the required number of visits per day by discipline, compared with the actual number of visits per day performed. 

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