Home Health Line
09/17/2012

At a time when many agencies are hoping hospitals and their physicians will choose them as partners in reducing hospitalizations, the VNA of Greater Philadelphia has a different strategy: It has acquired a house calls physician practice as a way to grow referrals while also making itself attractive to health care systems interested in fewer hospitalizations.

09/17/2012

Make sure 60-day summaries justify the medical necessity of a recertification to prevent unwarranted auditor scrutiny and survey deficiencies.

09/17/2012

This table from the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission’s (MedPAC) 2012 Data Book shows changes in home health utilization since 2002.

09/17/2012

Most of CMS’ Aug. 24 final rule to delay ICD-10 through 2014 was taken up by a discussion of a new system of health plan identifiers the federal Medicare agency plans to implement.

09/17/2012

Ask your software vendors what help they can provide as you begin to collect data for the comfortable dying measure required under CMS’ hospice quality reporting program.

09/17/2012

It has been nine months since the government proposed to severely limit the companionship exemption, but experts agree a final rule likely will happen – after the presidential election.

09/17/2012

Effective Jan. 7, 2013, you will no longer be able to report your own national provider identifier (NPI) in field locator (FL) 76 on claims.

09/17/2012

Use this chart from CMS’ quality reporting user guide to determine the steps you need to go through to collect data for the so-called comfortable dying measure.

09/05/2012

Click "download file" to view software vendor Meditech's comments on CMS' proposed changes to therapy assessment scheduling for 2013.

09/03/2012

CMS made it official with a final rule published Aug. 24: ICD-10 won’t take effect until Oct. 1, 2014, exactly one year later than the previous compliance deadline.

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