Home Health Line
12/04/2017
by: DecisionHealth’s 2017 Home Health Coders’ Productivity Survey
Coders who perform a full OASIS review are only able to complete two-thirds of the number of charts as those coders who perform coding and a partial OASIS review.
12/01/2017
CMS has finalized its plan to cancel four mandatory episode payment models for common cardiac and orthopedic conditions, according to a rule posted Nov. 30. The models had been due to begin in January.
12/01/2017
Following a recent DecisionHealth webinar about the draft interpretive guidelines on the revised Home Health Conditions of Participation (CoPs), agencies asked questions to attorney Robert Markette of Indianapolis-based Hall, Render, Killian, Heath & Lyman. Here is his answer to a question about patient rights.
11/20/2017
Many agencies are expressing deep concern about the lack of detail — and confusing details — within portions of CMS’ long-awaited draft version of the interpretive guidelines for the revised Home Health Conditions of Participation (CoPs).
11/20/2017
Conduct a detailed nutritional assessment for all your home health patients. Ensuring patients have proper nutrition will help prevent them from developing wounds and/or infections that could lead to rehospitalizations, industry experts say.
11/20/2017
Home health agencies and other providers with a low volume of pending appeals at the administrative law judge (ALJ) level now have a new option available to them to get out of the massive appeals backlog.
11/20/2017
Home health agencies are receiving another opportunity to earn case-mix points for pulmonary diagnoses. That’s according to the new case-mix table published in the 2018 final PPS rule, which takes effect Jan. 1.
11/20/2017
After CMS review, The Joint Commission has finally prepublished revisions to the Emergency Management standards for home health agencies and other health care organizations to align with requirements in the new emergency preparedness Conditions of Participation (CoPs).
11/20/2017
Fewer than two months before the revised Home Health Conditions of Participation (CoPs) take effect, CMS has released more details about how agencies should work to convert subunits to branches or independent home health agencies.
11/20/2017
by: Minneapolis-based ABILITY Network Inc.
Instances of hospitalization due to infection are higher for patients with IVs, surgical wounds and ulcers than those without, according to a new data analysis from Minneapolis-based ABILITY Network Inc.

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