Home Health Line
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.
 
 
07/29/2013
The rapid growth in accountable care organizations (ACOs) is changing the role of home health quality managers and the types of data that they collect.
 
 
07/29/2013
DecisionHealth has compiled a quick-reference table for you to compare your Home Health Compare scores to the past
two CMS updates.
 
07/22/2013
CMS should reconsider its proposal to return to provider any hospice claim with debility or adult failure to thrive as the primary diagnosis because it would cause significant access issues for dying patients. That’s the consensus emerging from 127 comments submitted on the proposed 2014 hospice wage index.
 
 

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