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No longer will your clinicians have to fill out two OASIS forms for patients returning to your care for the final five days of an episode...
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A new 113-page, item-by-item OASIS best practice guide may be just the shot in the arm your in-house OASIS training program needs....
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A registered nurse may leave the M0825 question on OASIS blank until a therapist makes his/her own assessment visit. In a recent memo to members, the National Association for Home...
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Word from the wise: Thinking about therapy projection in terms of diagnosis isn't going to cut it if your goal is to significantly drop you error rate on OASIS M0825....
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Don't stop at comparing your home health agency's average case-mix weight to the national average [...hhl 3/8/02] to discover whether you're cheating yourself out of revenue under PPS....
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Prepare to have as many as 12% of your RAPs and claims rejected for patients you estimated would receive 10 or more therapy visits at the start of care. ...
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Don't lose out on payments you're rightfully due for patients who actually receive 10 or more therapy visits, despite lower original estimates. ...
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The final tally is in: Amedisys Inc. says it overstated its revenue by $6.6 million between Oct. 1, 2000 and March 31, 2001 and, as a result, has nothing but...
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Before it submits its requests for anticipated payment (RAPs), Catholic Health System's McAuley Seton Home Care now has therapists double check the assessments of patients for whom nurses have projected...
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Prospective payments are warming up the market for home health agencies. But watch out for exaggerated revenue figures....
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Watch out for the common PPS error that recently forced home health giant Amedisys Inc. to reduce two quarters worth of reported earnings by $4 million - $7 million, triggering a...
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Better make sure your nurses check the "Hospital" box on OASIS question M0175 if your patients have been discharged from such a facility in the past 14 days. ...
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Most -- but not all -- of the strategies employed by CareMed to handle PPS have paid off....
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