Benchmarks
04/25/2024
The latest National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses, released in March, found a net increase of 400,000 licensed RNs since the last
national survey in 2018. But the total number of RNs in home health and hospice declined.
04/18/2024
Most home health coders are tackling more than 10 charts a day, according to the results of DecisionHealth’s 2024 Home Health Coders’ Productivity Survey.
04/11/2024
The proposed hospice rate update percentage for fiscal year 2025 is 2.6%, an estimated increase of $705 million from fiscal year 2024.
04/04/2024
Home health aide visits have declined more than 32% over the first three years of PDGM. That’s more than twice the decrease in the total
number of visits in a 30-day period.
03/28/2024
Medicare fee-for-service margins for freestanding home health agencies dropped year-over-year, but was still higher than 20%, according to analysis by MedPAC looking at Medicare home health cost reports.
03/21/2024
Aftercare following joint replacement surgery was the top primary for traditional Medicare 30-day periods.
03/14/2024
Agencies continue to get tripped up on documentation requirements in pre-payment reviews.
03/07/2024
We’re looking for national benchmark for days from discharge to final claim. We also want to know if there is a benchmark or tolerance level for unsigned orders over 14 days?
03/07/2024
Responses to “How often patients got better at taking their drugs correctly by mouth” have improved, according to the latest data from CMS’ Care Compare, published in January.
02/29/2024
With one year into OASIS-E, the new Transfer of Health (TOH) process measure scores are trending upward.

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