Home Health Line
08/29/2024
Motivate clinicians to learn the individual preferences, needs and nonverbal cues of patients with dementia to prevent unsafe or inappropriate situations and improve patient outcomes.
08/29/2024
Stressing the importance of informed consent and eligibility requirements among hospice patients could help your agency better inform staff about the live discharge process and prevent avoidable revocations.
08/29/2024
New codes to better capture intervertebral disc degeneration of the lumbar and lumbosacral regions will be available for use come October. These new codes will be based on whether the patient has discogenic back pain, lower extremity pain or no mention of either type of pain.
08/29/2024
Live discharges as a share of all discharges have increased in recent years.
08/22/2024
Working to connect patients with local resources for housing stability and utility access could boost high-risk patients’ engagement with the plan of care and see fewer rehospitalizations.
08/22/2024
For the first time in several years, the average home health coder’s salary did not increase in 2023. In fact, the average salary actually decreased slightly from $69,653 in 2022 to $68,183 in 2023. Experts note that there could be a few things contributing to the leveling off of coders’ salaries.
08/22/2024
CMS released the updated Home Health Grouper on Aug. 14 revealing acceptable primary diagnoses and the high and low comorbidity adjustment subgroups for the new fiscal year 2025 codes — set to take effect Oct. 1.
08/22/2024
Emphasize the importance of upcoming changes to the CAHPS Hospice Survey and distribution process when educating staff. Providers could see significant improvements to response rates once these changes are in place.
08/22/2024
With the rise of social media, what are some best practices for health care organizations to prevent unintentional HIPAA violations when employees and patients share information online?
08/22/2024
Average salaries for coders can depend on where they live, according to 225 respondents of DecisionHealth’s Home Health Coders’ Salary Survey.

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