by Edleen | Mar 10, 2025 | Articles by Michael Tidd, Latest News
April ICD-10 Changes | Michael Tidd, COS-C, HCS-D CMS has announced changed to ICD-10 coding manual and Coding Guidelines effective April 1, 2025. There are NO actual changes to the ICD-10 code set. The changes are instead in the Alphabetic and Tabular Indexes...
by Sara Reinosa | Apr 23, 2024 | Latest News
These are the proposed changes to the Value-Based Purchasing model that would become effective in 2025. Removal of 5 existing measures Discharge to Community Total Normalized Composite Change in Mobility Change in Self-Care Measures Acute Care Hospitalization...
by Sara Reinosa | Apr 23, 2024 | Latest News
The Outcome and Assessment Information Set Version E1 (OASIS-E1) Data Submission Specifications Version 3.01.0 are now available. This DRAFT version applies to the OASIS-E1 item set, which is scheduled for implementation on January 1, 2025. Section GG Goal items will...
by Staff | Oct 3, 2022 | Articles by Michael Tidd, Latest News
October brings fall weather and starts the transition into seasonal celebrations. For home health agencies, it also begins a bit of chaos and headaches for diagnosis coding. This is because some old diagnosis codes that we have been using for years are no longer...
by Staff | Sep 12, 2022 | COVID-19 News, Latest News
Updated COVID-19 Vaccines Providing Protection Against Omicron Variant Available at No Cost The Department of Health & Human Services (HHS), through CMS, announced that people with Medicare, Medicaid, Children’s Health Insurance Program coverage, private insurance...
