Home Health Line
08/05/2013
Starting in 2014 hospices will be required to collect new line-item data on certain types of patient visits including post-mortem visits, on care provision outside the hospice that is billing for care, and on the use of prescription drugs and some medical devices, according to change request 8358 released on July 29.
08/05/2013
Adjust your marketing strategies to educate referral sources about ICD-10, and ensure they provide the level of detail you need to code correctly.
 
 
08/05/2013
The multifactor falls risk assessment process measure increased by two percentage points to 96% in CMS’ July 18 update to the Home Health Compare website.
 
 
08/05/2013
A growing number of states are hiring telephony vendors to help them find out whether patients actually received the number of visits that Medicaid paid for. For affected agencies, though, such monitoring often means extra work.
 
 
08/05/2013
The following table explains the new method that CMS is using to calculate certain process and improvement measures that appear on its Home Health Compare website starting with the July 18 update. Information in the table was supplied by Strategic Healthcare Programs (SHP) of Santa Barbara, Calif.http://See story for details.
08/05/2013
  Home health agencies continue to cite physicians (general and specialists) as their No. 1 referral sources.
07/29/2013
Physicians soon may be able to get Medicare payments for long-term oversight of patients with two or more chronic illnesses.
 
 
07/29/2013
A new False Claims Act suit against a South Florida home health agency indicates the Justice Department’s reliance on home health employees to uncover possible Medicare fraud continues to grow.
07/29/2013
Remind clinicians that one of the keys to correctly answering M1308 (Number of unhealed pressure ulcers) and ensuring correct case-mix points is knowing whether there’s a true scab or avascular tissue such as slough or eschar. CMS provided ongoing clarification to this item in its quarterly, released July 17.
 
 
07/29/2013
Recent announcements by Medicare and major private insurers indicate the movement toward accountable care organizations (ACOs) is gaining momentum across the health care industry.
 
 

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