Home Health Line
06/07/2023
In a surprise to many, only 20% of pilot-state HHVBP agencies received payment adjustments greater than approximately 3% in 2021, with the maximum adjustment in 2021 being approximately 7%. This means that most agencies were not reaching the maximum adjustment, according to the 6th annual HHVBP report.
06/07/2023
Hospice industry leaders are calling on CMS to increase its payment adjustment for 2024 and to address payment rates in previous years that failed to fully account for inflationary realities.
06/07/2023
Surveyors have been focused on timeliness of OASIS, especially transfer summaries to the facility taking over care as these summaries hold important clinical/quality data that can impact care and outcomes.
06/07/2023
It’s not just federal investigators using technology to pinpoint potentially fraudulent practices in home health. Texas has put  providers on notice that it’s actively using data mining tools to search Medicaid claims for signs of fraud, waste and abuse.
06/07/2023
by: DecisionHealth Staff
Scores for some of the OASIS-based measures that drive HHVBP payments increased for those agencies in the pilot states when comparing the baseline years, 2013-2015, and the HHVBP years, 2016-2021 while some scores for ED use declined.
05/31/2023
An early look at data on OASIS-E trends shows that agencies are transferring a reconciled medication list to subsequent providers at transfer nearly 70% of the time. 
05/31/2023
In the midst of staffing issues plaguing hospices, cleverly used quality data could be an effective tool to set your agency apart from the others.
05/31/2023
Agencies struggling to complete start-of-care (SOC) visits in a timely manner should take advantage of a once temporary waiver turned permanent: allowing occupational therapists (OT) to complete the SOC.
05/31/2023
Hospital-at-home programs need to generate data that shows the programs are effective. “If the healthcare industry and the folks who are in this space can design and generate that evidence, we can prove that it is comparable to alternative models."
05/31/2023
While EHRs were used in a third of all cases to send medication information to other providers, a significant number of patients received information via this route.

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