Home Health Line
06/28/2018
Agencies that select the pre-claim review option of CMS’ review choice demonstration will get an educational call from a reviewer should she believe a claim warrants non-affirmation, a CMS spokesman has confirmed to HHL.
06/28/2018
Question the accuracy of a clinician’s response to M1242 (Frequency of pain interfering with patient’s activity or movement) if it indicates a patient is not experiencing pain, but the patient’s assessment includes a pain code or diagnosis that indicates pain — such as arthritis or fibromyalgia.
06/28/2018
by: HHL’s 2018 Home Health Clinician Productivity Survey
The data below show the average number of home health visits per day performed by discipline. The data below are based on 144 responses to HHL’s 2018 Home Health Clinician Productivity Survey. Visits are not weighted.
06/28/2018
by: J’non Griffin, president and owner of Home Health Solutions LLC
Agencies should use a checklist to ensure they include key components within an effective orientation program.
06/28/2018
Use this post-fall audit tool when reviewing patient charts following a fall. Doing so can help track and identify areas in which your agency can improve.
06/20/2018
With the added time home health experts anticipate OASIS-D will take and the amount of time many agencies expect to spend training, it’s a good idea to start preparing for the new version of the assessment now.
06/20/2018
CMS’ estimate for the money agencies will spend and resources they’ll use to participate in the review choice demonstration is far lower than what it realistically will take, several industry experts contend.
06/20/2018
It’s great if your agency’s performance improvement project (PIP) under QAPI is up and running. But it’s already time to consider what’s next.
06/20/2018
Don’t assume that if your agency suffers a small breach of patient protected health information (PHI) that any penalty the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) imposes will be proportional to the size of the breach.
06/20/2018
Make filing Medicare cost reports on time a priority. Doing so will help you avoid a hold on all payments.

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