Home Health Line
09/30/2022
Assign Z20.828 (Contact with and (suspected) exposure to other viral communicable diseases) for a patient who has been exposed to an active monkeypox infection but is asymptomatic, the Coding Clinic notes in its third quarter 2022 guidance update.
09/30/2022
This tool will help your agency weigh the strength of your F2F encounters, and it provides valuable guidance on what to do when you identify problems.
09/30/2022
Duplicate billing errors remains a top issue for claims processing for home health and hospice providers.
09/22/2022
Listening to feedback from employees through small group meetings and engagement surveys is one of the most effective tactics for dealing with recruitment and retention challenges.
09/22/2022
Prepare for a decrease in reimbursement for COVID-19 vaccines administered in the patient’s home. It’s one of several changes that CMS has announced in expectation of the eventual end of the public health emergency.
09/22/2022
Make changes to your policies and procedures now to prepare for the end of waivers that were granted under the COVID-19 public health emergency.
09/22/2022
Recent Medicare audits have uncovered an area where reviewers are cracking down, related to documentation when a patient’s medical focus of care changes prior to recertification.
09/22/2022
These scenarios show how to word the provider certification and attestation statement on recertifications when you have to indicate that a second encounter has been completed due to a diagnosis that is new or changed from stable to unstable since the initial face-to-face encounter.
09/22/2022
Increased wages and flexible schedules are two of the top efforts made in the struggle for recruitment and retention in 2022.
09/22/2022
Retaining quality staff was the top recruitment and retention challenge for agencies, according to our latest strategy survey results.

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