Home Health Line
09/30/2022
Duplicate billing errors remains a top issue for claims processing for home health and hospice providers.
09/22/2022
Listening to feedback from employees through small group meetings and engagement surveys is one of the most effective tactics for dealing with recruitment and retention challenges.
09/22/2022
Prepare for a decrease in reimbursement for COVID-19 vaccines administered in the patient’s home. It’s one of several changes that CMS has announced in expectation of the eventual end of the public health emergency.
09/22/2022
Make changes to your policies and procedures now to prepare for the end of waivers that were granted under the COVID-19 public health emergency.
09/22/2022
Recent Medicare audits have uncovered an area where reviewers are cracking down, related to documentation when a patient’s medical focus of care changes prior to recertification.
09/22/2022
These scenarios show how to word the provider certification and attestation statement on recertifications when you have to indicate that a second encounter has been completed due to a diagnosis that is new or changed from stable to unstable since the initial face-to-face encounter.
09/22/2022
Increased wages and flexible schedules are two of the top efforts made in the struggle for recruitment and retention in 2022.
09/22/2022
Retaining quality staff was the top recruitment and retention challenge for agencies, according to our latest strategy survey results.
09/15/2022
Monkeypox presents new challenges in keeping patients and staff safe. One of the biggest hurdles for some agencies right now may be in monitoring updated guidance around infection control concerns for the monkeypox public health emergency.
09/15/2022
CMS plans to collect telehealth data on claims beginning in 2023. Agencies should have this change on their radar and take steps to prepare.

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