Home Health Line
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.
 
 
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.
 
 

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