by Edleen | Apr 15, 2025 | Articles by Michael Tidd, Latest News
TeleHealth Extension| Michael Tidd, COS-C, HCS-D Congress has extended the ability to use Telehealth for the F2F as in home health and hospice. This was one of the additions included in the funding bill that prevented the government shut down on March 15. This...
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...
