Home Health Line
04/29/2013
You can still consider a resumption of care timely and answer “yes” on M2250 (Plan of care synopsis) even if you find out about a hospital discharge more than two days after it happened. That’s good news considering an untimely resumption also can drag down scores on publicly reported process measures.
 
04/29/2013
The ambulation outcome measure inched up by one percentage point to 59% in CMS’ April 18 update of the Home Health Compare website.
 
04/29/2013
A revamped version of the HHS Office of Inspector General’s (OIG) voluntary provider Self-Disclosure Protocol is designed to provide more guidance to agencies about what to report from the get-go and to shorten the process to less than a year.
 
04/29/2013
The data below show the average number of clinical case-mix points captured by agencies on OASIS items in 2010, 2011 and 2012.
 
04/29/2013
Planning to buy or sell an agency? Add federal labor law violations to the tax fraud, billing fraud and other possible liabilities you should address before a deal is closed.
 
04/29/2013
Palmetto GBA will suppress payment on requests for anticipated payment (RAPs) for agencies with a large number of auto-cancellations due to failure to file a final claim.
04/29/2013
The following document details CMS' proposed changes for OASIS-C1, as filed with the Office of Management and Budget.
04/22/2013
Don’t underestimate the home health impact of changes President Barack Obama has proposed in his 2014 budget. They include a long-feared copay and rate reductions in the form of bundled payments – both concepts endorsed by the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC).
 
04/22/2013
The comments are in, and experts fear that the requirement to provide affordable health insurance to full-time employees could have devastating effects on the home care industry, forcing some agencies to move employees to part time and other agencies to be driven out of business.
 
04/22/2013
Work on your communication with family caregivers now to prepare for public reporting of family experience of care measures. CMS has published its first draft of the future hospice consumer assessment of healthcare providers and systems (CAHPS) survey and will field-test it later this year.
 

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