Home Health Line
04/26/2012

Most agencies will put expenditures for ICD-10 staff training on the back burner following HHS’ proposed delay, but you can use the extra time to begin asking referral sources for more specific documentation to make the transition when it does arrive.

 

04/26/2012

CMS also has released the formula it used to adjust the publicly reported patient satisfaction scores for differences in individual agencies’ patient populations.

04/26/2012

Home health claim denials for services referred by non-enrolled physicians could begin as soon as late June.

04/26/2012

One year into the face-to-face encounter requirement, improper documentation still is a significant problem for agencies. 

04/26/2012

You can help physicians fill out the face-to-face form correctly on the first try by giving them this simple tool. 

04/24/2012

04/23/2012

A year after the face-to-face encounter requirement was first enforced, physician compliance has improved, but agencies still struggle to fix incorrect documentation and lack CMS guidance on key aspects of the requirement.

04/23/2012

Make sure all staff members have a clear idea of your organizational structure – clinicians giving conflicting information about who they report to are one of many risk factors that can lead to a condition-level deficiency for your agency and put you on track for termination from Medicare.

04/23/2012

The chart below shows what standard-level deficiencies lead to the five condition-level deficiencies most frequently cited in 2011. The term “level 1 standards” refers to the highest-priority standards that are examined during every survey (HHL 2/21/11).

04/23/2012

The number of condition-level survey deficiencies was up in 2011 – a result of more detailed guidance in the new survey protocols on when to move on to this more serious citation level, experts say (see related story, p. 1).

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