Home Health Line
07/17/2020
Dear subscriber:
 
We would like to introduce the inaugural issue of the Home Health Line Q&A.
07/15/2020
As states experiment with different phases of reopening, home health agencies like all businesses are working to establish the “new normal” to protect their employees.
07/15/2020
The percentage of home health payment periods that ended up with LUPAs increased during March 2020, in part, because patients refused care for fear of contracting COVID-19.
07/15/2020
Home health agencies may soon have access to a new home infusion therapy (HIT) benefit, effective January 1, 2021, if the related proposals in the 2021 PPS rule get finalized.
07/15/2020
Beginning on Oct. 1, coders will have specific diagnosis codes to capture other pathological fractures.
07/15/2020
Coders can get a head start on getting to know the changes to coding rules for diagnosis coding as the FY2021 ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines on Coding and Reporting were issued July 8 -- weeks ahead of the typical early August release date.
07/15/2020
This table shows the percentage of roughly 1.9M home health claims billed to Medicare for each clinical group from January through May 2020.
07/09/2020
CMS’ 2021 proposed PPS rule aims to introduce some stability in the home health market by going a little lighter on changes this year.
07/09/2020
Including telehealth in the Medicare home health rules and regulations is positive for the industry.
07/09/2020
The Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM) has been in effect for seven months, and industry experts have begun to see the patterns and misconceptions when it comes to coding accurately under the new payment model.

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