Home Health Line
06/28/2010

Hospices can use this checklist when responding to additional development requests (ADRs) from fiscal intermediaries. Failure to respond within 45 days is among the top five most common reasons for denials for 2009 or the most recent time period available.

06/28/2010
Confusion about how to answer OASIS-C wound questions likely contributed to an initial drop in the average case-mix weight for some agencies.
06/21/2010

Home health agency owners should prepare for increased opportunities to sell their agencies as the economy starts to improve and interest in home health picks up.

06/21/2010

Agencies might dodge the recovery audit contractor (RAC) bullet, but they may remain in the line of fire of other post-payment reviewers.

06/21/2010

Will your clinicians and coders need to learn a new ICD-9-CM code set in fiscal year 2013 as well as preparing for the transition to ICD-10-CM/PCS?

06/21/2010
Don’t rely on PECOS to get physicians’ NPIs. An independent investigation completed by the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) has revealed that as many as 40% of all
06/21/2010

Nearly 13% of the 2,663 surveys in 2009 contained citations for violating G0145 (failure to provide a written report for each patient to an attending physician every 62 days). This tool is designed to help agencies get that summary from physicians within the required time.

06/21/2010
Patients with diabetes mellitus (250) as their primary diagnosis make up 11.8% of all home health episodes. Below is a breakdown of the top secondary diagnoses that accompanied that code.
06/14/2010

The deadline for the four largest for-profit home health companies to turn over data pertaining to therapy visits has been extended, a congressional source tells HHL.

06/14/2010
CMS to hospices: Expect more scrutiny from reviewers, the Office of Inspector General, recovery audit contractors (RACs) and zone program integrity contractors (ZPICs) for claims involving patients living in nursing

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