Home Health Line
06/07/2018
by: Minneapolis-based ABILITY Network
The chart below shows the percentages of patients affected by risk factors listed on M1036 (Risk factors) including heavy smoking, obesity and alcohol and drug dependencies.
06/07/2018
Use this tool for each patient to ensure your agency is complying with the portion of the revised Home Health Conditions of Participation (CoPs) involving care planning, coordination and quality of care.
05/31/2018
The National Association for Home Care & Hospice previously pitched the following options as alternatives to CMS' pre-claim review.
05/30/2018
CMS is seeking public input into relaunching a pre-claim review demonstration for home health services. States that are potentially affected are located within Medicare Administrative Contractor (MAC) Palmetto GBA’s jurisdiction.
05/30/2018
Use a checklist to educate your agency’s intake employees about information needed to improve specificity around codes. Certain non-specific codes might indicate questionable encounters occurred under a revised home health payment system slated to begin in 2020.
05/30/2018
Following a recent DecisionHealth webinar about care planning/coordination and complying with the revised Home Health Conditions of Participation (CoPs), agencies asked questions of Sharon Litwin, principal and founder at 5 Star Healthcare Consultants in Camdenton, Mo. Litwin has previously served as a surveyor for two different accrediting organizations.
05/30/2018
One change CMS has proposed for OASIS-D is designed to ease confusion some coders have about how to fill out M1028 (Active diagnoses).
05/30/2018
Agency owners hoping to use arbitration agreements to avoid class action lawsuits brought by employees can rest easy. Those agreements are valid.
05/30/2018
by: Strategic Healthcare Programs (SHP), Santa Barbara, Calif.
Among the codes deemed to be questionable encounters according to the Home Health Groupings Model (HHGM) proposed — and not finalized — in the 2018 PPS rule, muscle weakness (generalized) was the most commonly used in 2017.
05/29/2018
by: QIRT
Train intake staff to use this checklist. Doing so will better ensure agencies have all the information they need to use more specific codes under a revised payment model.

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