PDGM for Home Health Care

Table of Content

• OASIS Simulation: Assessing at the Start of Care
• People With Medicare
• PDGM For Dummies
• Health Insurance Prospective Payment System (HIPPS) Code

PDGM presents one widely recognized challenge for home health agencies involving diagnoses. Estimates suggest that nearly 50% of the diagnoses permitted under the PPS will likely be rejected as ineligible to be classified as primary. With the new policies PDGM presents, case mix will be partially determined by a patient’s functional inabilities. Subsequently this presents a scenario where over 430 combinations can occur under PDGM, while PPS presents only 153.

Within the current system, home health providers receive a LUPA claim for providing 4 or less visits over 60-day care episodes within any category of patient delivered care. Providers then in turn only get a standardized per-visit payment, no matter the cause for fewer recorded visits. The new PDGM rules will effectively transform that universal four-or-fewer rule and morphs it into 216 differing scenarios. In consequence, estimated LUPA rates are expected to fall from 8% to 7.1% once PDGM takes effect, with scattered predictions that they may increase.

OASIS Simulation: Assessing at the Start of Care

It can take time to hire new people or train current staff to provide high-quality care for these new types of cases. Imark Billing is an industry leader in Home Health and Hospice Billing Services. Empowering agencies with comprehensive revenue cycle management so you can focus on what you do best, Patient Care.

This threshold is determined by the tenth percentile of visits in each payment group with a minimum of threshold of 2. Two admission source categories used for grouping a 30-day period of care. FISS will be modified to auto-cancel RAP payments on or after January 1, 2020 when the final claim is not received within 90 days of the statement FROM date of the RAP, or 60 days from the paid date of the RAP.

People With Medicare

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PDGM For Dummies

CMS states that these are too vague and they don’t provide enough information to support the need for home health services. Claims that have unacceptable primary diagnoses will be “returned to provider” because CMS cannot assign the 30-day period to a clinical group for payment. Cutting payment periods in half, from 60-day episodes to 30-day periods of care.

Seamlessly supplement your clinical assessments with CareScout’s nationwide network of 35,000+ registered nurses. One of the biggest areas of PDGM that has been in the spotlight is in regard to therapy. That balancing act is even more important with PDGM, which must be budget neutral, as mandated by Congress.

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However, an ‘other follow-up’ assessment is required when such a change would be considered a major decline or improvement in the patient’s hearth status. Home Care Answers makes things easy for agencies to know what the PDGM reimbursement will be along with the LUPA Threshold and HIPPS number on every chart in a simple report to review. We help provide vital information and maximize reimbursement by assuring accurate coding and OASIS.

Home Care Answers provides individual reports for each chart we review along with data compiliation to show data at any level you want. We can show data by clinician also with custom date ranges. Data Drives Decisions, but Great Data Drives Great Decisions. Providers quickly went from questioning the frequency of therapy visits to going back to giving the therapist control of determining frequency due to COVID-19.

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You agree to take all necessary steps to insure that your employees and agents abide by the terms of this agreement. On Jan 1st2020 PDGM will go into effect, and in spite of the concerns, the new system does have the potential to open new doors of opportunity for some agencies. The system still has room for improvement, and many lawmakers consider it still a work in progress.