Home Health Line
04/05/2023
CMS is seeking input on the barriers keeping hospices from providing higher intensity levels of care, even after payment rates were adjusted in 2020.
03/30/2023
Secure reimbursement you earned and set yourself up for Home Health Value-Based Purchasing (HHVBP) success with follow-up training on the OASIS functional items. These are some of the most common items that require a correction when SimiTree’s analysts compared OASIS answers to the supporting documentation in the patient’s chart.
03/30/2023
Conduct a root cause analysis (RCA) of sentinel events to pinpoint your next performance improvement project and learn from past mistakes as surveyors focus their attention on quality beyond infection control. 
03/30/2023
While many agencies are eager to apply for the Employee Retention Credit (ERC) to receive sizeable payouts from the government, a March statement from the IRS reminds to proceed with caution.
03/30/2023
More than half (58.3%) of agency owners reported that their marketers have become complacent due to COVID-19, and 79.2% said marketing quotas have been relaxed during COVID-19.
03/30/2023
by: Julia Huddleston
The technologically advanced world we live in increases the complexity and volume of cybersecurity threats. Recent threats and attacks are just more complex versions of phishing campaigns, insider threats, ransomware attacks, brute-force attacks and distributed denial of service attacks. Make sure that you train employees on known risks and the use of organization assets.
03/30/2023
by: DecisionHealth Staff
M1850 (Bed transferring) was among the top OASIS items that were most often returned to agencies with recommended scoring corrections based on supporting information in the patient’s chart.
03/24/2023
A new outcome measure is on the horizon for agencies. It will impact your Care Compare results, and potentially future HHVBP reimbursement.
03/24/2023
Now, over three years since the implementation of PDGM, some agencies are still using questionable encounter (QE) codes as primary diagnosis leading to unnecessary claims rejections.
03/24/2023
Instead of the clinicians, coders are often being asked to assign symptom ratings for M1021/M1022. But they don’t have much to go on except best guesses based on documentation. Inaccurate SCRs lead to an inaccurate reflection of the patient condition, an incomplete or misdirected plan of care and incorrect coding.

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