Relias

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Under the new CoPs, if therapy services establish home health eligibility, OT is included in the care plan, and no skilled nursing care is designated, the start of care visit can be done by an OT instead of having to wait for a nurse, PT, or SLP to be available.

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Care Plan Admissions Billing Collaboration 97

Relias

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

By incorporating care coordination practices such as risk assessment, care planning, care transitions, patient education, patient navigation, telehealth, and home visits, care coordination teams can bring in resources to help patients navigate health concerns that span physical, behavioral, and social risk factors and needs.

Care Plan 52

Care Plan Patient Satisfaction Acute Care Collaboration 52

Relias

JUNE 1, 2022

Undercoded Complex Hospital Admissions. Coders are challenged to select the codes that best convey the reason for admission. With the shift to value-based care and risk adjustment models, there’s a need for coding that gives a complete clinical picture of the patient. Fraudulent Coding or Overreporting. “We

Documentation 52

Documentation Medical Coding Admissions Follow-Up 52

Relias

JUNE 1, 2022

Undercoded Complex Hospital Admissions. Coders are challenged to select the codes that best convey the reason for admission. With the shift to value-based care and risk adjustment models, there’s a need for coding that gives a complete clinical picture of the patient. Fraudulent Coding or Overreporting. “We

Documentation 52

Documentation Medical Coding Admissions Follow-Up 52

Relias

APRIL 18, 2022

By doing so, you create an environment where the team can develop care plans that improve healing rates and lower incidence rates. When even one nurse becomes a specialist in wound care , that informed clinician can spread specialized knowledge throughout the care team.

Documentation 52

Documentation Certification Hospital Admissions 52

The HIPAA Journal

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) also published an interoperability rule in March 2020 that applies to Medicare- and Medicaid-participating short-term acute care hospitals, long-term care hospitals, rehabilitation hospitals, psychiatric hospitals, children’s hospitals, cancer hospitals, and critical access hospitals (CAHs).

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HIPAA Business Associate Appointments Transfers 126