Home Health Line
01/19/2015
Home health agencies are looking at new telehealth functionality that would allow virtual visits with patients.
 
 
01/19/2015
by: SHP
A question about care on evenings and weekends scored worse on a FEHC-to-CAHPS hospice crosswalk than another other question, according to a benchmark from Strategic Healthcare Programs in Santa Barbara, Calif.
 
01/19/2015
The home health industry won’t have to worry about immediate scrutiny from recovery audit contractors (RACs).
 
 
01/19/2015
None of the Labor Department’s companionship regulation is valid, according to the latest ruling by a federal judge on a suit challenging the regulation’s requirement for overtime payments to unskilled home support workers.
 
01/13/2015
The home health industry won’t have to worry about immediate scrutiny from recovery audit contractors (RACs). A week after CMS announced the one national contractor it chose to perform all RAC reviews for home health, hospice and durable medical equipment (DME), a different RAC has filed a protest.
 
01/12/2015
Industry experts argue that it’s unrealistic to expect patients’ medical records to contain the level of detail CMS outlined in a recent open door forum. As a result, some fear the risk for denials may be no less than when the narrative was required.  
 
01/12/2015
Agencies can expect increased review of claims now that CMS announced the official restart of their recovery audit contractor (RAC) reviews. All home health, hospice and durable medical equipment (DME) providers will be reviewed by one national contractor, Connolly LLC. 
 
01/12/2015
The Labor Department’s companionship regulation has been put on hold following a federal judge’s Dec. 31 decision to suspend Labor’s new definition of companionship services.
 
01/12/2015
A spouse in a legally valid same-sex marriage has the same rights under HIPAA as a spouse in an opposite-sex marriage for the purposes of use and disclosure of patient protected health information (PHI), according to recent guidance from HHS’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR).
 
01/12/2015
If a clinician discovers that a patient has an open wound yet she does not have orders to treat that wound, she cannot treat it — even if she just wants to put a simple gauze dressing on it. Acting without orders could result in deficiencies during a survey.
 

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