Home Health Line
03/16/2023
As more patients look to receive care at home, there’s an opportunity for home health agencies to take on higher acuity patients and become the referral partner of choice for hospitals and other providers.
03/16/2023
Coders could have a way to capture a post-acute encounter for sepsis aftercare if a proposal presented during the March ICD-10 Coordination & Maintenance Committee meeting gets finalized.
03/16/2023
A recent home health fine for employing an individual on the Medicare exclusion list serves as a reminder to home health agencies just how important it is to check the list of excluded and suspended individuals.
03/16/2023
Digital marketing through Facebook or similar avenues allows agencies to pull data from key metrics and use it to target messages to that audience.
03/16/2023
More claims included a comorbidity adjustment in 2022 than in the previous two years under PDGM.
03/08/2023
Shifting back to a comprehensive QAPI program will require varying amounts of work, depending on the choices agencies have made since 2020.
03/08/2023
Salary plus is the idea of paying exempt professionals a salary, plus additional amounts for productivity.
03/08/2023
Creative outsourcing could help both home health and private duty agencies reduce burden on key staff while continuing to navigate the staffing shortage.
03/08/2023
An alert regarding outsourcing companies stressed that the responsibility to guard Medicare beneficiary protected health information lies with the provider and not the billing company or other outsourcing agency.
03/08/2023
None of the new codes were added to the list of acceptable primary diagnoses and do not fall into any clinical groupings, according to the latest HH Grouper update.

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