Regulatory Compliance
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. 
11/02/2023
In a November meeting, the commission will review the hospice workplan over the coming 18 months, including hospice’s effect on net Medicare spending.
10/26/2023
More efficient visit use could be one way to address looming payment cuts. But be sure to balance decisions to cut visits with what the patient really needs and LUPA potential. 
10/26/2023
As the home health industry braces for another round of payment cuts, understand that cost reports are used to determine whether those cuts continue.  
10/26/2023
Coders could have new codes to capture hypoglycemia levels if a proposal is approved as presented during the virtual ICD-10 Coordination & Maintenance Committee meeting.
10/19/2023
Don’t include too many additional questions in your HHCAHPS surveys. Doing so could make collection and review of the data more complicated for you and your staff and could reduce the response rate from patients.
10/12/2023
CMS will release two new Health Equity Confidential Feedback Reports to home health agencies, along with inpatient rehabilitation facilities, long-term care hospitals and skilled nursing facilities.

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