Home Health Line
10/12/2023
As Medicare Advantage (MA) plans participating in the Value-Based Insurance Design (VBID) model continue to add palliative care offerings, hospice providers weighing whether to partner with these plans should take a look at how competitors have been responding to MA opportunities.
10/12/2023
Here’s a list of the top 10 primary diagnoses for the first half of 2023.
10/05/2023
Agencies not only struggle to get positive HHCAHPS results, but some agencies struggle to get enough survey responses in the first place.
10/05/2023
Interoperability has long been a goal for agencies, but competition and intellectual property make some vendors reluctant to share patient data. That barrier is gradually getting softer though as vendors expand their services and ability to collaborate with others.
10/05/2023
After a 2% increase in the average salary of a home health coder in 2021, coding salaries continue to rise with a 3.8% increase to an average of $69,653 in 2022.
10/05/2023
The IRS announced September 14 an immediate halt on the processing of Employee Retention Credits (ERC) claims because of suspected fraud. This freeze demonstrates just how much concern there is over fraud.
10/05/2023
A proposal discussed during the September ICD-10 Coordination & Maintenance Committee meeting requests the addition of codes for cement pulmonary embolism and fat pulmonary embolism with and without acute cor pulmonale.
10/05/2023
The amount of time a coder has spent coding in home health has a direct correlation to income, according to DecisionHealth’s 2023 Home Health Coders’ Salary Survey.
09/27/2023
A proposed rule from the Department of Labor (DOL) would increase the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) salary threshold amount from $35,568 per year to $55,068 per year for salaried exempt employees.
09/27/2023
One of the big issues that agencies run into when it comes to documentation compliance is getting adequate information from referral sources beyond the initial referral.

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