CATS AND HOME HEALTH HAVE MORE IN COMMON THAN YOU THINK
The volume to value change started years ago. STARS, APMs, HHVBP, TPE are all ways CMS has been moving agencies to show they are providing value in care. [...]
Home Health Articles and Information
PDGM, BILLING AND OCCURRENCE CODES
Occurrence codes 61 and 62 optional on final claims for inpatient care 14 days prior to home health. Occurrence code 50 required for claim processing [...]
REVIEW CHOICE DEMONSTRATION
The review choice demonstration gives providers three ways to comply. In this blog we review the good and bad of call three choices. [...]
ICD-10 CODING CHANGES WITHOUT AN OASIS ASSESSMENT IN PDGM?
ICD-10 codes can be changed without a significant change in condition (SCIC) or RFA 05 in a home health episode under the PDGM grouping model. [...]
PREPARING TO MANAGE THERAPY UNDER PDGM STARTS NOW
PDGM preparation starts with a look at current therapy utilization and OASIS accuracy. Is your HHA pairing low functional scores with high therapy? [...]
CHARTING FOR HOME HEALTH SUCCESS
If you are responding to a bottomless pile of ADR, TPE or Z-pic/ U-pic audit requests you need to understand CMS expects data-rich longitudinal charting. [...]
VOLUME TO VALUE CHANGE FOR HOME HEALTH- NOT NEW AND NOT SURPRISING
HHVBP and PDGM mimic the restructuring hospitals went through in the acute care reforms when “fill the beds” turned into “empty the beds” almost overnight. [...]
PDGM & HOME HEALTH NURSE RETENTION
The care team approach provides nurse retention by decreasing charting for clinicians while allowing OASIS to a RAP ready state the same day it is started [...]