Home Health Line
10/05/2023
A proposal discussed during the September ICD-10 Coordination & Maintenance Committee meeting requests the addition of codes for cement pulmonary embolism and fat pulmonary embolism with and without acute cor pulmonale.
10/05/2023
The amount of time a coder has spent coding in home health has a direct correlation to income, according to DecisionHealth’s 2023 Home Health Coders’ Salary Survey.
09/27/2023
A proposed rule from the Department of Labor (DOL) would increase the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) salary threshold amount from $35,568 per year to $55,068 per year for salaried exempt employees.
09/27/2023
One of the big issues that agencies run into when it comes to documentation compliance is getting adequate information from referral sources beyond the initial referral.
09/27/2023
Home health agencies fearing the worst from proposed payment cuts in the 2024 home health payment rule have found bipartisan support from some members of the Senate Finance Committee.
09/27/2023
The timeliness of care quality measure for home health agencies has been slowly climbing over the past year, going from 95.6% in July 2022 to 96% in July 2023, according to the latest Care Compare data.
09/27/2023
by: DecisionHealth Staff
Having a nurse who speaks the same language can help prevent hospital readmissions among home health patients who don’t speak or know very little English, according to a new study out of New York University Rory Meyers College of Nursing.
09/27/2023
by: DecisionHealth Staff
The national average for “How often the home health team began their patients’ care in a timely manner” has slowly climbed to 96% over the past four quarters, according to data from Care Compare. The national average includes 12 months worth of OASIS assessments, with the most recent data from Oct. 1, 2021 to Sept. 30, 2022.
09/21/2023
A new report released by the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) found that 55% of Medicare home health claims reviewed included hospitalizations for falls with major injury that were not reported on patient assessments as required.
09/21/2023
Newly developed artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are expected to help agencies improve patient outcomes and compliance by doing things such as proposing goals and interventions for patients based on a scan of all records and determining whether more visits or other services are needed.

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