Home Health Line
11/14/2018
Most employers are required by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act and state law to guard against and respond to claims that an employee was sexually harassed by a coworker or manager. But employers also can be liable for sexual harassment of an employee by non-employees, such as sales representatives, patients or referral sources.
11/14/2018
by: DecisionHealth's OASIS-D Survey
About 32% of agencies submit their OASIS to the state in a week or less, while nearly 30% require more than two weeks to submit their OASIS to the state.
11/09/2018
The following OASIS items will be optional at follow-up in 2020.
11/08/2018
View the 2019 PPS final rule's effect on home health agencies and PDGM's projected effect on home health agencies.
11/07/2018
Agencies that wait until the last minute to prepare for the Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM) may put themselves in huge financial trouble when it launches, industry experts say.
11/07/2018
Adjustments to Medicare’s home health payments under the 2019 PPS final rule will increase agencies’ total reimbursement by $420 million in 2019.
11/07/2018
by: J'non Griffin
CMS will use specific, individual patient characteristics to determine payments for home health agencies under the Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM). Understanding how the revised payment system will work is crucial to understanding its potential impact on your bottom line.
11/07/2018
Based on stakeholder feedback, CMS under the final PPS rule has agreed to include inpatient psychiatric facility (IPF) stays in the institutional category for the payment system under the Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM).
11/07/2018
CMS has just given itself an additional year — until Nov. 3, 2019 — to finalize its proposed rule involving discharge planning.
11/07/2018
The 2019 national per-visit amounts for low-utilization payment adjustment (LUPA) episodes are slightly higher for all disciplines than the 2018 rates.

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