Home Health Line
10/17/2024
With overworked clinicians often limited in the time that they can spend with each patient, the BIMS may not provide a clear picture of cognitive status if the patient feels rushed or frustrated by the clinicians’ scheduling restraints.
10/17/2024
Coders could see new codes to capture inflammatory breast cancer if a proposal is approved as presented during the September ICD-10 Coordination and Maintenance Committee meeting. This is one of more than 35 proposals that were presented.
10/17/2024
Use this checklist to conduct a review of the face-to-face encounter note when you get the referral.
10/17/2024
Among 145 claim denials under pre-payment Targeted Probe & Educate across seven states, more than one out of every four denials were due to the face-to-face documentation.
10/10/2024
Make sure clinicians are assessing patient breathing and not just asking about breathing issues and checking off boxes when scoring for M1400.
10/10/2024
Educate your staff on Medicare payments and quality metrics to empower clinicians and build a collaborative team approach to case management.
10/10/2024
Begin preparing now for new hospice quality reporting requirements by assessing whether increased staffing and changes in visits will be needed with the HOPE tool.
10/10/2024
A new bill introduced in Congress is seeking to make the most significant changes in Medicare’s hospice benefit since its inception in 1982.
10/10/2024
Several items in the new Hospice Outcomes and Patient Evaluation (HOPE) tool will be familiar to clinicians, but key data collection time points will require some training.
10/10/2024
More than one in three patients are struggling to access home health care after a hospital discharge.

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