Home Health Line
02/08/2024
Understanding the recent changes to coding for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) has been a challenge for coders since the updates first took effect Oct. 1, 2023, especially when coding an acute exacerbation or COPD with lower respiratory infection.
02/08/2024
There needs to be a role or team assigned to monitor responses to patient access requests and ensure that responses comprehensively address all current patient rights for nontraditional (including physical) and digital access to their associated PHI records.
02/08/2024
COVID-19 continues to impact patient breathing in some patients, but agencies nationally are seeing improvement in the measure “How often patients’ breathing improved,” according to Care Compare results.
02/02/2024
Learn how one agency is starting to leverage new machine-learning algorithms to receive real-time alerts to track patient hospitalization risk, visit utilization, hospital admissions, discharges and more. Using these strategies the agency reduced its hospitalization rate by over 40% in less than one year.
02/02/2024
Make sure your documentation clearly justifies the patient’s need for skilled services, as medical necessity appears to be a top concern for auditors in the latest post-payment review.
02/02/2024
Agencies struggling with recruitment need to discard old recruitment methods and create new, transparent job listings that will attract the right staff. This can be done through story-telling recruitment.
02/02/2024
LUPA rates are up compared to 2019. Even though the pandemic ended last spring, lingering COVID-19 cases and other airborne infections are still affecting whether or not someone accepts or keeps home health services.
02/02/2024
The CDC posted updated FY2024 ICD-10-CM guidelines, including a sequencing update for sepsis due to postprocedural infection.
02/02/2024
Agencies increased salaries over the last year to attract and keep quality clinicians.
01/25/2024
Continued payment cuts under PDGM, including a large perceived overpayment to home health providers that CMS plans to eventually recoup, are at the top of the agenda for industry advocates in Washington.

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