Home Health Line
11/19/2012
HomeCare Elite agencies performed far above their non-Elite peers on several key outcome measures.
 
11/19/2012
Beginning Jan. 1, 2014, health care reform regulations require certain employers to offer affordable, minimum essential health insurance to their full-time employees or face the risk of penalties.
 
11/19/2012
The HHL team has compiled this quick-reference tool of the major survey provisions in this year’s final rule. Civil monetary penalties, suspension of payment for new admissions and the informal dispute resolution (IDR) process will take effect on July 1, 2014. All others changes are effective July 1, 2013. Survey changes can be found in section V of the rule.
11/13/2012
This tool was created by Arlene Maxim, founder of A.D. Maxim & Associates, as a template for a management and evaluation visit note. It helps nurses show why their oversight of the patient's unskilled care is needed. It also provides an opportunity to show how the patient's condition is being monitored by the nurse.
11/13/2012
Arlene Maxim, founder of A.D. Maxim & Associates, created this tool as a sample of how management and evaluation services can be incorporated into the plan of care.
11/12/2012
CMS’ estimated payment reduction for agencies in 2013 is feather-light, but new sanctions for survey deficiencies and a major change to the diagnosis payment slot could hit agencies harder.
 
11/12/2012
Civil monetary penalties and payment suspensions for non-compliant agencies won’t take effect until July 1, 2014, but CMS otherwise made only a handful of changes to its proposed survey sanctions in the final 2013 PPS rule.
 
11/12/2012
CMS has finalized its proposal to limit the use of the diagnosis payment slot (M1024) to only permit fracture diagnosis codes, which means you can no longer place resolved conditions there.
 
11/12/2012
CMS has finalized a change that will limit when therapists can perform their reassessments, but provided additional flexibility in cases where ordered visit frequencies would make compliance hard for agencies.
 
11/12/2012
Next year’s national per-visit amounts for low-utilization payment adjustment (LUPA) episodes will be slightly above the final rates for 2012 across all disciplines, according to the final 2013 PPS rule.

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