Home Health Line
09/17/2012

Most of CMS’ Aug. 24 final rule to delay ICD-10 through 2014 was taken up by a discussion of a new system of health plan identifiers the federal Medicare agency plans to implement.

09/17/2012

Ask your software vendors what help they can provide as you begin to collect data for the comfortable dying measure required under CMS’ hospice quality reporting program.

09/17/2012

It has been nine months since the government proposed to severely limit the companionship exemption, but experts agree a final rule likely will happen – after the presidential election.

09/17/2012

Effective Jan. 7, 2013, you will no longer be able to report your own national provider identifier (NPI) in field locator (FL) 76 on claims.

09/17/2012

Use this chart from CMS’ quality reporting user guide to determine the steps you need to go through to collect data for the so-called comfortable dying measure.

09/05/2012

Click "download file" to view software vendor Meditech's comments on CMS' proposed changes to therapy assessment scheduling for 2013.

09/03/2012

CMS made it official with a final rule published Aug. 24: ICD-10 won’t take effect until Oct. 1, 2014, exactly one year later than the previous compliance deadline.

09/03/2012

Want more referrals? One Florida agency is negotiating an agreement with a “regional physician group” to be the group’s “home health agency of choice for patients in need of home health services.”

09/03/2012

Details of Home Health International’s physician agreement aside, another question is the agency’s physical location.

09/03/2012

An in-depth analysis of the daily workload for each coder has helped CHRISTUS Home Care in San Antonio eliminate one full-time equivalent (FTE) staff position from the department and create a solid baseline from which to judge staff performance.

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