Home Health Line
05/14/2018
Understand your options when filing Medicare cost reports now that CMS allows entirely electronic submission. Filing electronically gives agencies another tool to ensure reports are submitted timely — and thus payments won’t be temporarily cut off.
05/14/2018
Following a recent DecisionHealth webinar about responding to additional documentation requests (ADRs), agencies asked questions of Annette Lee, owner of Provider Insights, Inc., in Des Moines, Iowa. Lee is a former clinical education consultant with Medicare Administrative Contractor (MAC) CGS. 
05/14/2018
Seek out ways to encourage and promote your agency’s top caregivers. Doing so will help with your agency’s retention rate — an ongoing struggle that’s worse now than ever before for the private duty industry.
05/14/2018
Home care agencies that offer caregivers the most money have turnover rates far lower than the national average, while agencies that pay the least have significant turnover rates.
05/14/2018
The Joint Commission no longer will require agencies to provide patients with a copy of a full written plan of care. Removal of language that “The organization provides the patient with a written individualized plan of care” is effective April 30.
05/14/2018
New data show ransomware remains a massive issue for health care providers. Is your agency taking the necessary precautions?
05/14/2018
In the near future, you’ll be able to capture a patient’s diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis in remission if the proposal to add these new codes to the ICD-10 code set is accepted.
05/14/2018
by: Home Care Pulse, Rexburg, Idaho
The median turnover rate in 2017 was 66.7% — the highest in the nine years that Home Care Pulse has released its annual benchmarking study.
05/14/2018
by: Annette Lee, owner of Provider Insights, Inc., in Des Moines, Iowa
Use this checklist to make sure your agency has all of the information needed when responding to additional documentation requests (ADRs).

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