Home Health Line
08/30/2021
Start training and developing tools related to social determinants of health, especially ahead of the planned implementation of the OASIS-E in 2023 and national Home Health Value-Based Purchasing in 2022.
08/30/2021
A decline in home health aide use received attention in the 2022 proposed home health PPS rule, and CMS suggested a possible change in case-mix methods with the help of comments on the rule.
08/30/2021
There has been a gradual shift in the top reported principal diagnoses used for hospice care in recent years, and industry experts say CMS may be looking into this shift (involving some diagnoses with longer lengths of stay) as a sign of misuse of this service.
08/30/2021
Employees with long-term effects of COVID-19 might have difficulty working in the same way they did before the infection and may be entitled to workplace accommodations so they can do their job.
08/30/2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a significant toll on us all, but it has created an increasingly challenging environment for working parents in America.
08/30/2021
Recent data on the most common hospice principal diagnoses show a shift leaning more toward increasing numbers of neurological disease.
08/23/2021
Drop the phrase “considerable and taxing effort” from your vocabulary — it can be a bright red flag for an auditor looking to dive deeper and question homebound determinations.
08/23/2021
The code to capture COVID-19 — U07.1 (COVID-19) — was the second most commonly assigned primary diagnosis code for January through June 2021.
08/23/2021
Telehealth promises a host of improvements for patients, a less strenuous workload for staff and potential business opportunities for providers.
08/23/2021
Hospices not meeting quality reporting requirements in FY 2022 will face an increased penalty down the road.

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