Home Health Line
10/30/2017
One Massachusetts-based home health agency is saving hundreds to thousands of dollars an episode and has improved quality outcomes by using a Wound Ostomy Certified Nurse (WOCN), forming a wound team and enhancing wound care training.
10/30/2017
Following a recent DecisionHealth webinar about how to prepare for the Home Health Groupings Model (HHGM), agencies asked questions to attorney Robert Markette of Indianapolis-based Hall, Render, Killian, Heath & Lyman. Here are some of his answers.
10/30/2017
During the final weeks before the emergency preparedness requirements take effect for home health, agencies must make sure they’ve taken all necessary steps to be in full compliance.
10/30/2017
by: Minneapolis-based ABILITY Network
I87.2 (Venous insufficiency (chronic) (peripheral)) was the least profitable ICD-10 code in 2016. That’s according to an analysis of assessments involving about 900,000 PPS episodes by Minneapolis-based ABILITY Network.
10/25/2017
by: CMS
There are 360 agencies nationwide that earned five stars in the ratings system involving quality of care, according to ratings released in October 2017. Meanwhile, 959 agencies received 4.5 stars.
10/25/2017
by: CMS
Only 542 agencies nationwide earned five stars in the ratings system involving HHCAHPS, according to the ratings released in October 2017. That’s a 64% decrease from July 2017.
10/23/2017
The big buzz at the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) annual conference in Long Beach, Calif., involved the status of several potentially devastating regulatory topics.
10/23/2017
Review CMS’ latest Q&A on the one-clinician rule to make sure clinicians’ collaboration on the OASIS complies with new guidance manual changes effective January 1, 2018. This step could prevent overpayment risk during future audits.
10/23/2017
Home health agencies will now have their claims returned instead of automatically denied when Medicare systems fail to match those claims with a corresponding OASIS assessment.
10/23/2017
Restructure clinical managers’ positions so they function more like case managers.

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