Home Health Line
06/30/2022
The percentage of periods that fell into each clinical grouping used to determine PDGM payments decreased slightly for half of the 12 groups, according to data from CMS released in the proposed 2023 rule.
06/23/2022
CMS estimates that 2023 home health payments would decrease in the aggregate by 4.2%, or an $810 million reduction in payments compared to 2022.
06/23/2022
Compliance with CMS’ vaccine mandate requirements should remain a high priority, even as officials pull back slightly on the number of surveys that include reviewing vaccine tracking and practices.
06/23/2022
As this hurricane season builds, agencies in areas potentially affected by storms need to brush up on their emergency preparedness plans and ensure they are ready.
06/23/2022
Agencies might be tempted to find out what competitors are offering their staff, but these conversations can violate antitrust laws and are strictly prohibited.
06/23/2022
Hospice agencies should ensure education surrounding the relevance of medications to control pain, anxiety, agitation and other symptoms that impact patients’ quality of life.
06/23/2022
Industry experts and coders alike will be pleased to see the inclusion of 69 new codes to further identify the stage of severity, and behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD).
06/23/2022
Home care wages have changed over the last few years.
06/15/2022
Check your testing schedule and make sure your plan and procedures have been updated to reflect current emergency plan exercise requirements, as CMS released new guidance to surveyors.
06/15/2022
CMS has rescinded, at least temporarily, a change to policies around nurse practitioners (NP) and clinical nurse specialists (CNS). The proposal to require additional documentation when an NP or CNS was ordering or certifying home health services has been pulled from a recent update of the benefit policy manual.

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