Home Health Line
03/16/2023
Digital marketing through Facebook or similar avenues allows agencies to pull data from key metrics and use it to target messages to that audience.
03/16/2023
More claims included a comorbidity adjustment in 2022 than in the previous two years under PDGM.
03/08/2023
Shifting back to a comprehensive QAPI program will require varying amounts of work, depending on the choices agencies have made since 2020.
03/08/2023
Salary plus is the idea of paying exempt professionals a salary, plus additional amounts for productivity.
03/08/2023
Creative outsourcing could help both home health and private duty agencies reduce burden on key staff while continuing to navigate the staffing shortage.
03/08/2023
An alert regarding outsourcing companies stressed that the responsibility to guard Medicare beneficiary protected health information lies with the provider and not the billing company or other outsourcing agency.
03/08/2023
None of the new codes were added to the list of acceptable primary diagnoses and do not fall into any clinical groupings, according to the latest HH Grouper update.
03/08/2023
More than one third of agencies are cited for failing to meet the main QAPI requirement, according to 161 surveys from Fiscal Year 2021, the most recent data available.
03/01/2023
Conducting the Brief Interview for Mental Status (BIMS) has been one of the biggest struggles in the first two months since OASIS-E implementation.
03/01/2023
The new outcomes measure “Home Health Within-Stay Potentially Preventable Hospitalization” will be added to Care Compare in October or as soon as technically feasible.

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