Home Health Line
04/08/2013
More and more family caregivers are asking your agency to communicate with them via email. What’s more, you have to be sure electronic personal health information (ePHI) remains protected when you communicate with employees in the field.
 
04/08/2013
The ICD-10 transition doesn’t just affect your coders. Take the time now to analyze how the coding change will impact other parts of your agency, such as clinical operations and billing, to ensure you’re prepared for a financial hit that could last for months after Oct. 1, 2014.
 
04/08/2013
Fewer than one in five agencies have appointed ICD-10 transition teams, according to a recent survey with 156 respondents conducted by the Board of Medical Specialty Coding & Compliance (BMSC), a division of DecisionHealth in Gaithersburg, Md.
 
04/01/2013
If you submit a claim that lists a physician whose application for the provider enrollment, chain and ownership system (PECOS) is pending, you’re out of luck: Home health claims will be denied under CMS’ new edit unless the physician already is listed in CMS’ ordering/referring file.
 
04/01/2013
Three in four home health agencies would receive denials under the pending provider enrollment, chain and ownership system (PECOS) edit.
 
04/01/2013
If you retaliate against an employee to avoid penalties under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), you could find yourself stuck with those penalties and an additional compensatory damage award, as well as other costs, under a new interim final rule to protect whistleblowers.
 
04/01/2013
Educate physicians and their staff about the new codes for transitional care management (TCM) services using a mixture of written education and face-to-face conversations with marketers.
 
04/01/2013
Adopting a paid-time-off (PTO) plan or capping sick days can help reduce or eliminate sick time abuse and ease the tribulations of staffing disruptions. However, make sure you’re in compliance with local laws and choose a plan that makes sense for your workforce and needs.
 
04/01/2013
The state of Connecticut and the cities of San Francisco, Washington D.C., Philadelphia and Seattle all have enacted mandatory sick leave laws in the past few years.
 
04/01/2013
The data below show how many days of paid time off (PTO) agency employees receive on average, based on their years of service with the agency.

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