Home Health Line
03/28/2024
The new guidance also adds three emergency preparedness items to the list of standard Level 1 reviews. This likely means that emergency planning will become a focus in surveys and generate additional deficiencies that agencies haven’t seen.
03/28/2024
For home health payments in 2025, MedPAC is recommending a 7% reduction in the base payment rate. The commission's recommendations to Congress also included no payment update for hospice providers.
03/28/2024
It is important to accurately assess for this item as missing some statements on M1033 can have an impact on both revenue and OASIS outcomes.
03/28/2024
The top offenders for unbilled claims are unsigned orders and missing or incomplete face-to-face documentation.
03/28/2024
It was one of more than 25 proposals that were presented recently. All of the discussed proposals are being considered for an Oct. 1, 2025, implementation date.
03/28/2024
Medicare fee-for-service margins for freestanding home health agencies dropped year-over-year, but was still higher than 20%, according to analysis by MedPAC looking at Medicare home health cost reports.
03/21/2024
A patient having prior home health experience can alleviate the anxiety of having clinicians in a patient’s home when hospice care is needed.
03/21/2024
Make patient outcomes a priority as Medicare Advantage plans create unique challenges with limits on the number of visits. MA patients are receiving less visits than traditional Medicare patients and being discharged with worse outcomes, according to new report.
03/21/2024
Make sure all of your provider information is in order, and you’re compliant with all of the enrollment requirements, as CMS rolls out a new “stay of enrollment” provider status that could impact payments for care provided during a stay.
03/21/2024
Clinicians should familiarize themselves with what is considered high-risk for M2010 (Patient/Caregiver High-Risk Drug Education) as this may not always be the same as the high-risk categories in N0415 (High-Risk Drug Classes: Use and Indication).

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