Home Health Line
11/16/2023
Agencies nationally have seen steady improvement on the Care Compare item “How often patients got better at getting in and out of bed.”
11/09/2023
Agencies may have received a reprieve from the full 5.78% payment cut expected in the 2024 final home health rule, but the fight continues for changes to the formula or a delay in cuts until more data are available on the impact of PDGM on agency behavior. 
11/09/2023
Make sure your clinicians are accurately scoring GG items as changes set in the final rule make several of these items critical to your Care Compare public reporting and your bottom line under HHVBP.
11/09/2023
Beginning in 2024, agencies will receive a low comorbidity adjustment for Respiratory 10 (2019 Novel Coronavirus). That was one of the many changes to the subgroups that lead to high and low comorbidity adjustments and functional impairment levels finalized in the final rule.
11/09/2023
CMS is moving forward with the hospice Special Focus Program, effective January 1. Unfortunately, it’s too late for hospices to make changes to avoid being selected for the program.
11/09/2023
Apply the information you’re collecting now around Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) and health equity to get ahead of future quality measures alluded to by CMS in the 2024 Home Health Prospective Payment System final rule.
11/09/2023
In justifying permanent payment cuts for home health providers, CMS notes in the 2024 final rule that the number of agencies operating under negative margins has not increased under PDGM.
11/02/2023
CMS reiterated it expects to claw back more than $3.4 billion in the next few years to account for what it sees as overpayments from 2020 through 2022.
11/02/2023
As agencies continue to struggle with staffing, payment cuts may force them to tighten their costs around recruitment making retention a top priority.
11/02/2023
When including telehealth during a home health period, focus on appropriate documentation in the Plan of Care (POC) to avoid what was a frequent compliance error in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Login

User Name:
Password: