Home Health Line
12/04/2017
CMS’ recent decision to wait a year from Jan. 13 before imposing civil monetary penalties involving the revised Home Health Conditions of Participation (CoPs) should be met with considerable relief from agencies scrambling to prepare while awaiting further guidance on the new standards.
12/04/2017
Home health coders are completing more charts per day than they did a year ago, but the specific number of charts appears to vary depending on several factors, including — but not limited to — workload, time requirements, levels of review and individual coders’ abilities.
12/04/2017
Ensure all individual members of multidisciplinary teams work toward a common goal to ensure patients’ pain lessens throughout the episode.
12/04/2017
Without swift movement from Congress in the next few months, nearly 800,000 people protected by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) will be forced to leave the workforce and the country.
12/04/2017
Employers under federal OSHA jurisdiction, which includes many home health agencies, have until Dec. 15 to learn how to use the agency’s new electronic injury reporting system.
12/04/2017
by: DecisionHealth’s 2017 Home Health Coders’ Productivity Survey
Coders who perform a full OASIS review are only able to complete two-thirds of the number of charts as those coders who perform coding and a partial OASIS review.

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