Home Health Line
05/13/2013
As the home health industry seeks ways to work with hospitals to prevent readmissions, more and more agencies are turning to telehealth as a viable option.
 
05/13/2013
Nearly two-thirds of home health agencies have some form of telehealth or will buy by the end of 2014, compared with about half of respondents on a similar survey six years ago.
 
05/13/2013
Is Medicare paying hospices too much compared with their costs of care? CMS is proposing a significant expansion of what information needs to be included on cost reports to answer that question.
 
05/13/2013
CMS’ May 8 home health open-door forum included announcements on new hospice coding instructions and the status of OASIS-C1.
05/08/2013
CMS will soon issue additional instructions regarding the use of debility and adult failure to thrive in the principal diagnosis slot of hospice claims, CMS staffers said at a May 8 open-door forum call.
 
05/06/2013
Hospices would see a 1.1% increase in their payments in fiscal 2014 under CMS’ proposed wage index, published April 29. But they also would be faced with a plethora of new requirements, including a standard patient assessment instrument and a survey to measure satisfaction with hospice care.
 
05/06/2013
You might no longer have to report information on inpatient procedure codes and the dimensions of the patient’s largest pressure ulcer under OASIS-C1. However, CMS also could add a new item whose purpose is unknown so far.
 
05/06/2013
Agencies that failed to submit 100 or more final claims on time because they can’t get face-to-face encounter documentation, have billing system problems or have personnel issues may never receive their request for anticipated payment (RAP) dollars.
 
05/06/2013
Get ready to change your coding practices: CMS wants hospices to stop using vague debility and adult failure to thrive codes as the principal diagnosis, it says in the proposed 2014 wage index. Noncompliance would cause your claims to be returned to provider until you change the code assignment.
 
05/06/2013
Agencies stepping up their use of licensed practical nurses (LPNs) to decrease visit costs could be at greater risk of costly survey citations.
 

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