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April 25, 2015
Home Health: FTF Manual Updates
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FINALLY! Chapter 7 of the Medicare benefit Policy Manual has been updated with the new therapy and face to face requirements! This includes verbiage to support our "3 step process" discussed in last month's newsletter. Home Health...
February 21, 2015
2015 has already brought about a lot of changes in home health, including: implementation of OASIS C-1/ICD-9, further payment cuts, shifts and deletions in the case-mix points-, a nice relief in therapy reassessments, and needed relief in the face to face mandate. I...
January 16, 2014
Hello, Hospice Friends!
Well, we all knew this was coming... and now, it is becoming reality-- Hospice is going to have its own data set, much like the OASIS or MDS, called the HIS (Hospice Information Set). Initially, just outcomes will be driven by this data, but, a...
October 15, 2013
Hello, friends!
Undoubtedly by now you have all heard the news regarding CMS's "Clarification" in the Proposed payment updates for hospice released 10 days ago. Buried in the payment updates, CMS released a lengthy direction to hospices that the non-specific diagnoses...
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