Home Health Line
11/14/2011

Are your clinicians actually spending the amount of time with patients that’s called for in plans of care?

11/14/2011
CMS will report the outcome measure “emergency department use without hospitalization” based on claims data starting in January, as proposed. However, that date is “contingent on the measure’s readiness for
11/14/2011

Home and community-based services (HCBS) as an alternative to more expensive nursing home care appear to be gaining popularity among states squeezed by recession-caused enrollment increases and precipitous declines in

11/14/2011
Home health productivity saw little to no change from 2010 to 2011 for all disciplines, with one notable exception: The average number of daily visits performed by therapy assistants declined
11/07/2011
CMS has reduced the sting of its 2012 PPS changes with a final rule that will lower Medicare’s home health payments by less than originally proposed.
11/07/2011
CMS’ final 2012 PPS rule has retained its initial proposal to pay less for high-therapy episodes and more for low therapy utilization. But the rates of these case-mix changes have
11/07/2011
CMS has finalized a proposed change to the face-to-face encounter requirement that it believes will allow agencies more flexibility in obtaining the required documentation.
11/07/2011

CMS will remove two hypertension codes from the case-mix system beginning in January, according to the 2012 final rule.

11/07/2011
The 2012 final rule officially amends the therapy reassessment requirement to state that only Medicare-covered visits are included in the ongoing therapy visit count.
11/07/2011
Agencies won’t get a break on the reporting requirement for 2012. CMS is moving forward with cutting payments by 2% for those agencies that didn’t meet the requirement for Home

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