Home Health Line
05/27/2022
This is a quick reference guide to start familiarizing your staff with the new items that will be required as part of OASIS-E starting in January 2023.
05/27/2022
It’s time to level up your overall OASIS knowledge with the first look at the much-anticipated draft of the OASIS-E guidance manual.
05/20/2022
The latest annual report on the nine-state initial model of Home Health Value-Based Purchasing (HHVBP) provides clues for agencies about what has been working to move the needle for agencies in those pilot states.
05/20/2022
Update: On June, 6, 2022, CMS rescinded new requirements that a CNS or NP document in the medical record the scope of their relatiopnship with a physician partner.
05/20/2022
Work toward a clear and concise pre-claim submission under the Review Choice Demonstration (RCD), rather than an exhaustive documentation dump, to avoid non-affirmations and delays by reviewers.
05/20/2022
Employers need to pull out all the stops to attract top talent and retain their employees and this includes prioritizing new and sought-after benefits.
05/20/2022
Take a look at how financial incentives that were part of the Home Health Value Based Purchasing pilot project impacted outcomes, performance measures and Medicare spending.
05/20/2022
Use this face-to-face encounter tool to ensure that your documentation is in order and avoid auditor scrutiny. The tool was created by Joe Osentoski, senior consultant for Gateway Home Health Coding and Consulting in Madison Heights, Mich.
05/12/2022
Agencies should ensure clinicians are familiar with the high-risk drug classes ahead of OASIS-E implementation and the addition of N0415 (High-risk drug classes: use and indication).
05/12/2022
One of the publicly reported quality outcome measures that improved slightly in April’s quarterly refresh of home health data on Care Compare was “How often patients’ breathing improved.”

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