Home Health Line
06/20/2019
Ensure necessary diagnosis information is received within five days of a patient’s start of care (SOC) date, or risk forfeiting rightful reimbursement.
06/20/2019
A recent settlement agreement between the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and the now-shuttered medical records storage company FileFax Inc. is a good reminder that providers and business associates need to comply with HIPAA and protect PHI not only when they possess or store it but also when they transmit it to each other.
06/20/2019
Agencies must comply with HIPAA when passing patient protected health information (PHI) back and forth.
06/20/2019
Z47.1 (Aftercare following joint replacement surgery) and I10 (Essential (primary) hypertension) are the two most common primary diagnoses in home health, according to an analysis of home health claims submitted to CMS in 2017.
06/11/2019
With the Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM) set to go into effect on or after Jan. 1, 2020, agencies large and small are starting to consider how the new payment model is going to affect their utilization of therapy — and many are considering reductions.
06/11/2019
Following a recent DecisionHealth webinar about improving intake in a world of the Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM), agencies asked questions of industry expert Sue Payne, vice president and chief clinical officer for The Corridor Group of Overland Park, Kan.
06/11/2019
Collect information from multiple sources when responding to GG0110 (Prior device use). Doing so will help ensure more accurate responses.
06/11/2019
by: Mary Compton
Make compliance training for all staff and all affiliated partners a top priority. This will ensure your agency conforms with government mandates in an increasingly complex industry.
06/11/2019
Expect claims submitted to the government to be subjected to data analysis. The government is increasingly relying on data mining to ferret out improper payments, using all Medicare data and most Medicaid data to drill down into billing activity.
06/11/2019
by: NAHC
Among 487 respondents to a National Association for Home Care and Hospice (NAHC) survey question about therapy utilization under the Patient-Driven Groupings Model, about 25% plan to decrease therapy utilization by more than 10% and about 23% plan to decrease therapy utilization by more than 10%.

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