Home Health Line
05/02/2011

Your internal software vendor likely has added a free therapy tracking feature that enables you to alert both your office scheduler and field clinicians to CMS’ new therapy assessment deadlines

05/02/2011

A discharge OASIS is not required for patients for whom the face-to-face encounter requirement is not met within the first 30 days of an episode.

05/02/2011

Hospice reimbursement revisions would be tested in pilot programs and the face-to-face physician encounter completion timeframe would be extended if Congress passes a new Senate bill introduced this month.

05/02/2011

Look for part-time caregivers or caregivers outside of a diabetic patient’s family who can help with insulin injections to avoid exceeding CMS’ cap on outlier payments.

04/25/2011

Standard therapy visits can be conducted by therapy assistants, though you must use qualified therapists to conduct assessments and reassessments of the patient’s progress.

04/25/2011

Your agency could see new opportunities to reduce hospital readmissions and improve post-acute care under a test of care-transition techniques from CMS.

04/25/2011

You won’t get paid if you’re enrolled in Cahaba GBA’s electronic payment system and haven’t submitted an EFT authorization to CIGNA Government Services by May 6, 2011 – regardless of what

04/25/2011

CMS requires only one physician signature when the physician certification and face-to-face encounter documentation are on the same document, the federal Medicare agency announced April 13.

04/25/2011

A provision in the health care reform bill is forcing CMS to examine whether the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) is right in regularly finding no lack of home health

04/25/2011

President Barack Obama has signed a bill to repeal the 1099 reporting requirement which would have forced home health agencies to tell the IRS about their purchases of most goods

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