Home Health Line
08/19/2013
Agencies plan to invest a significant amount of money this year in direct mail, social media and their own websites, according to the 181 respondents in HHL’s 2013 Medicare Referrals Survey.
 
08/12/2013
CMS has finalized new hospice data reporting requirements, which will require extra time to collect information from pharmacies, work with vendors to update systems and take precautions to prevent cash flow interruptions.
 
 
08/12/2013
Home health consultants and agency owners are reporting an increase in additional documentation requests (ADRs) related to face-to-face documentation. And depending on agency size there could be as much as $100,000 at stake.
 
 
08/12/2013
Despite the one-year postponement of the employer insurance mandate, Oct. 1 remains a deadline home health agencies can’t afford to ignore, say experts who have studied the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) multitude of moving parts.
 
 
08/12/2013
A.D. Maxim & Associates, Troy, Mich., has compiled a face-to-face encounter form for home health agencies to provide physicians. The form provides space for physicians to write narratives explaining why clinical findings support the need for home health services and why clinical findings support the homebound per CMS guidelines. Agencies can use forms like this to protect themselves against the increase in scrutiny from MACs.
08/12/2013
Proposed Medicare payment cuts, rising gas prices and the future transition to ICD-10 and OASIS-C1 mean that agencies are focusing on improving productivity and efficiency.
08/12/2013
The data below show the average number of actual patient visits per day performed by different home health disciplines.
The data are based on answers from the survey’s 136 respondents. Visits are not weighted.
 
08/12/2013
Four U.S. legislators are asking for their colleagues’ help in urging CMS to modify the face-to-face requirement.
 
 
08/05/2013
Effective July 30, enrollment of startup home health agencies in Miami-Dade County and the Chicago metropolitan area will be suspended for at least six months, CMS announced just four days prior to the effective date.
08/05/2013
As of July 1, CMS gained the authority to issue new survey sanctions for agencies that received deficiencies due to staff performance issues. And those penalties can prove costly for home health agencies.
 
 

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