Home Health Line
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
11/07/2011
Physicians’ medical records can serve as face-to-face encounter documentation if they contain all the required information, CMS reiterates in the final rule.
11/07/2011

HHL has boiled down the 235-page final rule into a quick reference tool to help you determine the impact of each change on your agency. For each change in the rule, this tool provides the section of the rule which contains it, as well as the proposed version of the change for a side-by-side comparison.

11/07/2011
Agencies in Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi and Tennessee will feel the biggest impact from the final rule’s policies with an average payment decrease of 4.78%.
11/07/2011
In the final 2012 PPS rule, CMS for the first time shares national data based on the assignment of G codes for therapy visits and confirms that it will use
10/31/2011

Home health agencies could be useful members of accountable care organizations “as a way to improve the quality of care for their mutual patient population,” CMS says in the final

10/31/2011

When agencies ask him what they can do to make their clinicians more productive, consultant David Berman has a surprising answer for them: Stop weighting your visits.

10/31/2011

CMS has further clarified one of the more confusing aspects of therapy reassessment scheduling, but the incident that prompted the clarification raises questions about Medicare administrative contractor (MAC) interpretations of

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