Home Health Line
05/14/2018
New data show ransomware remains a massive issue for health care providers. Is your agency taking the necessary precautions?
05/14/2018
In the near future, you’ll be able to capture a patient’s diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis in remission if the proposal to add these new codes to the ICD-10 code set is accepted.
05/14/2018
by: Home Care Pulse, Rexburg, Idaho
The median turnover rate in 2017 was 66.7% — the highest in the nine years that Home Care Pulse has released its annual benchmarking study.
05/14/2018
by: Annette Lee, owner of Provider Insights, Inc., in Des Moines, Iowa
Use this checklist to make sure your agency has all of the information needed when responding to additional documentation requests (ADRs).
05/03/2018
Some hospice industry experts were taken aback by CMS’ latest analysis of service intensity add-on (SIA) payment data. The analysis raises a red flag, because CMS contends hospices aren’t providing enough visits at the end of patients’ lives.
05/03/2018
Educate doctors about revenue opportunities involving TCM and CCM to get your foot in the door with potential referral sources.
05/03/2018
Agencies recently asked a number of questions of industry experts J’non Griffin and Joan Usher. Griffin is president of Home Health Solutions, LLC in Carbon Hill, Ala., and Usher is president of JLU Health Record Systems of Pembroke, Mass. Here are their answers.
05/03/2018
For the first time, the U.S. Department of Labor is offering a program to allow home care agencies and other companies to self-disclose Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) violations in exchange for Labor waiving civil monetary penalties and liquidated damages.
05/03/2018
The hospice industry is expected to receive about $340 million in increased payments in 2019, according to CMS’ proposed hospice payment rule posted April 27 on the Federal Register. That’s nearly twice the payment increase in 2018.
05/03/2018
A new CMS analysis of 2017 fiscal year claims data shows on any given day during the last seven days of a hospice election, nearly 42% of the time the patient has not received a visit from a skilled nurse or social worker.

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