Regulatory Compliance
12/22/2023
With a growing number of agencies accepting Medicare Advantage (MA) patients year-over-year, it’s important to know where to focus to get the biggest bang for the buck with MA plans.
12/14/2023
Take another look at your processes around fall prevention and fall reporting as the latest OIG report targeting home health will put new scrutiny on agency efforts to prevent major falls in 2024 and beyond. 
12/14/2023
Agencies that are ignoring these resources risk learning in late 2024 that their payments for 2025 home health services have been cut by as much as 5% because of poor performance compared to outcomes nationally.
12/14/2023
When replacing the primary diagnosis in the second 30-day period, make sure you’re accurately disposing the previous primary diagnosis — whether it remains an issue for the patient and included in care going forward or it’s resolved altogether.
12/07/2023
It can be challenging to settle on a primary diagnosis when a patient has more than one diagnosis that could qualify as primary under PDGM.
11/30/2023
A large number of home health and home care agencies need to take steps now to protect themselves from the recently expanded definition of “joint employer” by The National Labor Relations Board.
11/16/2023
Certain hospices and home health agencies have until December 5 to collect and report employee demographic data to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to comply with the mandated EEO-1 Component 1 Data Collection. Agencies that don’t comply with this requirement can face fines, and even jail time.
11/09/2023
Beginning in 2024, agencies will receive a low comorbidity adjustment for Respiratory 10 (2019 Novel Coronavirus). That was one of the many changes to the subgroups that lead to high and low comorbidity adjustments and functional impairment levels finalized in the final rule.
11/02/2023
When including telehealth during a home health period, focus on appropriate documentation in the Plan of Care (POC) to avoid what was a frequent compliance error in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.
11/02/2023
Be sure to include a timestamp with electronic face-to-face signatures. 

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