Home Health Line
05/04/2023
Staffing shortages have led to heavier workloads, coders leaving the office to cover for nurses, increased overtime, burnout, lack of quality referrals, inability to accept new patients and less time for reviews, according to respondents to DecisionHealth’s 2023 Coders’ Productivity Survey.
05/04/2023
If still awaiting the occurrence of the face to face, we have been submitting the POC for signature then sending a change order with the face-to-face attestation to the certifying physician for signature after the face to face occurs. Would this be an acceptable procedure?
05/04/2023
A new memo demonstrates that the current NLRB considers retaliation against employees who have workplace discussions about racism constitutes an unfair labor practice, even for non-union employers.
05/04/2023
Results of DecisionHealth’s 2023 Home Health Coders’ Productivity Survey show expectations for daily productivity is challenging coders.
04/26/2023
CMS addressed the conflicting information given in the OASIS-E assessment versus the OASIS-E Guidance Manual for when to complete the entire Patient Mood Interview for D0150. This information was released in the April OASIS-E Q&As.
 
 
04/26/2023
CMS addressed the conflicting information given in the OASIS-E assessment versus the OASIS-E Guidance Manual for when to complete the entire Patient Mood Interview for D0150. This information was released in the April OASIS-E Q&As.
 
 
04/26/2023
CMS should consider modest changes to PDGM and other post-acute payment systems, instead of a unified payment system that has long been in development, according to MedPAC.
04/26/2023
Agencies do not have to submit any additional data under the expanded Home Health Value-Based Purchasing (HHVBP) program.
04/26/2023
According to the 2022-2023 Salary and Benefits Report, surveyed agencies reported that an average of 68.58% of employees are paid hourly, while 49.18% of employees are paid per-visit.
04/26/2023
The proposed Federal Trade Commission (FTC) rule that would ban non-competes, threatens to strip agencies of the direct-hire provision that protects against clients getting hired away from the agency by a caregiver.

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