Home Health Quality Reporting Requirements in 2018
Identify Items to Improve Your Star Ratings and Measures to Improve Your QAPI Program Outcomes drive your home health agency’s reimbursement, your star ratings, and if you are in a value-based...
View ArticleOutcome Enhancement of Your Home Health Agency in 2018
Enhance Your HHA’s Outcomes in 2018 From CASPER reports and 5-Star Ratings to OASIS items, your home health agency has a whole truckload of outcome measures to stay on top of. And a low score on even...
View ArticleProtecting Revenue by Preventing Denials in CMS’ Newest Targeted Probe...
Prepare for CMS’ New Targeted Probe and Post-Payment Review The CMS implemented a new targeted probe and educate (post-payment) review, which will involve 20-40 records per round. There is a...
View Article2018 Intermediate Sanctions & the Appeals Process for Home Health Agencies
Take Both an Offensive & Defensive Stance Against CMS Intermediate Sanctions With the new home health conditions of participation (CoPs), home health agencies need to be keenly aware of what...
View ArticleHow to Survive the PAC Race and Come Out a Winner
Do More with Less: Innovative Strategies to Adapt to a Changing PAC Landscape Payment reforms and sweeping new Medicare regulations are transforming the post-acute care (PAC) health care industry. Are...
View ArticleHow to Write a Plan for Correction of Deficiencies and for QAPI
Prepare for New CoPs to Successfully Write and Implement a Plan of Corrections The implementation of the new Conditions of Participation (CoPs) has impacted home care agencies in a big way. Agencies...
View ArticleContinued Survey Readiness: Strategies and Tips to be Compliant at All Times!
Get Practical Tips to Decrease Your Home Health Agency’s Condition Level Deficiencies Deficiencies, including condition level, are on the rise and now deficiencies can also lead to sanctions! Agencies...
View ArticleHow to Comply with New Home Health CoPs for Emergency Preparedness
Get up to Speed with the New CoPs for Emergency Preparedness and Avoid Penalties The implementation of the new Conditions of Participation (CoPs) has impacted home care agencies in a big way. Agencies...
View ArticleMedicare Termination: How to Avoid & Respond to Threats of Termination by CMS
Learn When and How to Appeal – and the Most Practical Ways to Avoid Termination by CMS Termination from participation in the Medicare and Medicaid programs can have a devastating impact on a healthcare...
View ArticleHome Health Chronic Care Management – The Future of Healthcare
Learn How to Implement Your Plan, Do Your Documentation, and Get Paid According to the CMS, 117 million adults have one or more chronic health conditions, and treating chronic conditions accounts for a...
View ArticleOASIS D – Prepare Your Clinicians for the New, Detailed Assessment Items
Prepare Your Clinicians for OASIS-D Today to Prevent Productivity Losses Effective January 1, 2019, your reimbursement, outcomes, star ratings, and more will depend on the seriously revamped OASIS...
View ArticleFollow the Final Interpretive Guidelines for Home Health CoPs
Don’t Risk Deficiency Citations—Put the New Rules into Practice For the first time in decades, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) updated the home health Conditions of Participation...
View ArticleMaster Home Health Face-To-Face Compliance
Don’t Let Your F2F Encounters Cause Denials The Face-to-Face (F2F) mandate has been around for eight years, but if you’re like other home health providers, you’re still struggling to meet the...
View Article2018 Home Health Coding Updates
Prepare for 2018 Coding Updates and Navigate Difficult Coding Scenarios in Home Health There are 360 new codes, 42 deleted codes and 226 revised codes effective in January 2018. There are 72 new codes...
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