Home Health Line
01/15/2018
The IRS has announced that standard mileage rates for the use of a car in 2018 rose to 54.5 cents per mile of business travel.
01/15/2018
CMS has approved the 2018 standards set forth by the home health accrediting body Community Health Accreditation Partner (CHAP).
01/15/2018
by: DecisionHealth’s 2017 Home Health Coders’ Productivity Survey
Having coders out of the office with no backup can mean that work quickly builds up. About 65% of respondents to DecisionHealth’s 2017 Home Health Coders’ Productivity Survey say it takes 31 to 60 minutes to complete a chart.
01/09/2018
CMS will hold a special open door forum 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. EST Jan. 23 to offer education about the change from Social Security Number-based Health Insurance Claim Numbers to new Medicare Beneficiary Identifiers (MBIs).
01/08/2018
Ensure your agency takes appropriate steps to discharge patients with cause — and understands the limited situations when it’s allowed to discharge these patients.
01/08/2018
Use CMS’ newly posted provider training materials to ensure clinicians understand how to answer GG0170C (Mobility) or risk payment.
01/08/2018
CMS officially decided to eliminate “Influenza immunization received for current flu season” from the list of home health quality of star ratings measures. This is the first time a measure has been removed since the quality of care star ratings began in July 2015.
01/08/2018
While Congress in December passed a tax bill and staved off a government shutdown for now at least, it did not vote on a package that would have extended rural add-on payments in home health.
01/08/2018
CMS and the RAND Corporation are progressing on testing of data elements for standardization across post-acute settings as a result of the IMPACT Act.
01/08/2018
Agencies should expect a revised home health payment model within the next several years, industry experts Sue Payne and Barbara McCann said during a recent DecisionHealth webinar on the 2018 final PPS rule in home health.

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