Home Health Line
06/23/2022
Hospice agencies should ensure education surrounding the relevance of medications to control pain, anxiety, agitation and other symptoms that impact patients’ quality of life.
06/23/2022
Industry experts and coders alike will be pleased to see the inclusion of 69 new codes to further identify the stage of severity, and behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD).
06/23/2022
Home care wages have changed over the last few years.
06/15/2022
Check your testing schedule and make sure your plan and procedures have been updated to reflect current emergency plan exercise requirements, as CMS released new guidance to surveyors.
06/15/2022
CMS has rescinded, at least temporarily, a change to policies around nurse practitioners (NP) and clinical nurse specialists (CNS). The proposal to require additional documentation when an NP or CNS was ordering or certifying home health services has been pulled from a recent update of the benefit policy manual.
06/15/2022
Find time to train clinicians on the new and revised OASIS-E social determinants of health (SDoH) — including health literacy, transportation, race and ethnicity — and your agency will benefit from better quality outcomes.
06/15/2022
Consider adding a medical director to your operations as a way to directly improve patient outcomes related to rehospitalization and medication management, while overcoming key compliance challenges and growing referrals.
06/15/2022
Do not assign E78.5 (Hyperlipidemia, unspecified) for a diagnosis of unspecified hyperlipidemia and hypercholesterolemia as the hypercholesterolemia identifies the specific blood lipid elevated, the Coding Clinic notes in its Q2 2022 guidance update, released June 3.
06/15/2022
by: DecisionHealth Staff
The pandemic has brought fresh attention to the development of an emergency plan. A comprehensive risk assessment; testing and training; and an annual review remain frequent survey issues, according to 546 surveys between October 2020 and September 2021 listed in CMS’ Quality, Certification & Oversight Reports (QCOR).
 
 
06/09/2022
One of the many concerns expressed in comments to the 2023 proposed hospice rule was the 5% cap on any future decreases in the wage index.

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