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The key to minimizing your agency’s adverse events is to track patients’ progress while focusing on specific M0 items. As an added bonus you’ll identify the areas in which your...
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Welcome to OASIS-C & Outcomes Solutions’ new monthly feature –“Ask the OASIS Experts.” Ask your most difficult OASIS questions and our experts – Ann Rambusch and Judy Adams – provide the answers.Q: M0560...
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Home care coders should be cautious of coding mental disorders, (i.e., dementia or depression), unless the diagnosis is verified with the physician. Mental disorders can be sensitive, and coding such...
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CMS has issued new guidance about how your clinicians should answer M0520 when the physician orders catheter removal during the start-of-care visit – and failing to comply could cost your agency...
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Ensure your clinicians are accurately answering M0800 (management of injectable medications), or miss out on case-mix points now that CMS has expanded its case-mix variables in the payment model to...
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Ensure clinicians are accurately answering M0520 (urinary incontinence or urinary catheter presence), and your agency will garner non-routine supply points, show improvement in its urinary incontinence outcome and ultimately position...
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Urinary incontinence is more than just "puddling." ...
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When Keweenaw Home Nursing and Hospice decided it would improve outcomes by focusing on urinary incontinence, the Calumet, Mich.-based home health agency and hospice really had no idea how big...
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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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Right now, you could wind up searching as many as five different Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Web sites for guidance on one of the 23 OASIS questions...
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