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​ Medicare requires a home health certification and plan of care to be compliant and for reimbursement. Creating the plan and its follow up can be complicated. The plan of care should match the documentation within the OASIS. It can take hours of time and[…]

​ How to Comment on the Home Health Proposed Rule The rulemaking process is what occurs to finalize a Proposed Rule. For Medicare, CMS is the agency that proposes a rule and a rule can contain many new regulations. CMS puts the rule out via[…]

Changes aplenty. Will you be ready? This (CY2022) being year 2 under PDGM, there are numerous changes in the CY2022 HH PPS Proposed Rule; most having to do with HH PPS (see § II of the Proposed Rule) and the HHVBP Model (see §III), which[…]

This blog captures the conversation Home Health Revealed had with Katherine Piette and Alicia Jenkins from Corstrata. In this blog, we discuss a topic in home health that has become a $40 billion problem: wound care. Alicia serves as Corstrata’s Clinical Director for Provider Services;[…]

​ PDGM became effective 1/01/20 and significantly changed how we operate in Medicare Home Health. New Cost Centers were developed, additional discipline data needed to be tracked, billing fundamentals, and coding changed dramatically. And now, CMS is proposing to expand the Home Health Value-Based Model[…]

What is the Home Health OASIS? OASIS stands for Outcome and Assessment Information Set. The Home Health OASIS is a standardized data set that measures quality and outcomes. It contains information regarding the patient such as the clinical condition, comorbidities, physical and mental state, functional[…]

Home Health Coding 101 What is Home Health coding? Home Health coding in the PDGM world is much more specific than what we’ve ever seen in the industry. The coder must have specific documentation from the physicians and clinicians to ensure proper primary diagnosis coding[…]

Home Care Software Solution: What You Need to Know to Choose the Right EMR with Kristen Duell Choosing the best home care software solution, an EMR, is hands-down, one of the biggest decisions an agency will make and it affects everything from daily work flow[…]

In the below free training you will learn: How to download your agency’s PEPPER report for FREE Identify and discuss PEPPER Target Areas Be able to compare and discuss the agency’s metrics with National, Jurisdiction and State metrics Understand how the PEPPER report can help[…]

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