Home Health Line
06/13/2018
Bolster education and training around several key OASIS topic areas during home health aide orientation. Doing so will improve your agency’s overall OASIS accuracy.
06/13/2018
Step up efforts to educate clinicians about M2020 (Management of oral medications). The measure is poised to take on increased importance because CMS is considering adding it to home health quality of care star ratings.
06/13/2018
A total of 473 code changes will take effect on Oct. 1, including 279 new codes, 143 revised codes and 51 code deletions, according to the FY2019 ICD-10-CM update released June 11.
06/13/2018
Utilization of maintenance therapy in home health hasn’t significantly changed despite CMS launching a webpage last year to educate providers about it.
06/13/2018
Agencies recently asked a number of questions of industry experts J’non Griffin and Joan Usher. Griffin is president of Home Health Solutions, LLC in Carbon Hill, Ala., and Usher is president of JLU Health Record Systems of Pembroke, Mass.
06/13/2018
by: ABILITY Network
Agencies’ use of maintenance therapy from physical therapists decreased in 2017 compared to 2016, according to data from Minneapolis-based ABILITY Network, Inc. Agencies used the maintenance therapy G code for PT during 0.72% of standard PPS home health episodes in 2017 — after using it during 0.94% of episodes in 2016. 

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