Home Health Line
04/07/2014
A new demonstration project CMS is spearheading will allow a select group of hospices to provide a limited range of palliative care and support services to terminally ill patients who will also receive curative treatment from their primary care physicians or from specialists.
04/07/2014
Just prior to Congress voting to delay ICD-10, most agencies already had begun training coders but far fewer had begun training non-coders, HHL’s Home Health ICD-10 Readiness Survey shows. More than three-quarters of the survey’s 292 respondents had begun training coders, while 40% of agencies have begun training non-coders such as clinicians and intake personnel. 
 
03/31/2014
The revised OASIS-C guidance manual will be released April 11, and long-awaited proposed revisions to the Conditions of Participation (CoPs) are likely to be published soon thereafter.
03/31/2014
Home health is looking at a big financial hit for the care of non-healing surgical wounds after Oct. 1.
03/31/2014
Agency reps who attended the National Association for Home Care & Hospice’s (NAHC) March on Washington conference March 23 – 26 had two main agenda items: revising face-to-face requirements and easing future rebasing.
03/31/2014
CMS’ ICD-10 testing week, which ended March 7, gave providers and software vendors a chance to see whether they could transmit a small number of claims with ICD-10 codes.
03/31/2014
If you have strong evidence that a hospital is failing to offer patients a reasonable choice of post-acute care providers, contact its CEO or ask your state survey agency to conduct a complaint survey.
 
03/31/2014
Medicare administrative contractor CGS denied 1,176 of 1,377 claims it reviewed as part of its widespread edits involving face-to-face documentation between July 1 and Dec. 31, data recently released show
03/31/2014
03/24/2014
by: Sharon Litwin
The following are sample plans of correction provided by Sharon Litwin of 5 Star Consultants.

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