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- Final FY 2020 ICD-10-CM changes include hundreds of new tabular instructions
Starting Oct. 1, 2019, coders will have 25 new codes to specifically capture deep tissue injuries (DTIs).
- Staff trainer: Assistive devices
Home health aides often have frequent interaction with a patient and therefore play a key role in many areas related to assistive device use and safety. For this reason, it’s important for aides to understand assistive devices as well as associated best practices.
- Make sure to use CMS' tool to examine how your agency will fare under PDGM
When preparing for the Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM), one crucial step agencies should take is examining the impact CMS says PDGM will have on their specific agency.
- 20 most common primary diagnoses in home health
Z47.1 (Aftercare following joint replacement surgery) and I10 (Essential (primary) hypertension) are the two most common primary diagnoses in home health, according to an analysis of home health claims submitted to CMS in 2017.
- Educate marketers about PDGM, and use data to formulate a strategy
It’s not too early to alert your agency’s marketing representatives that an entirely new payment model is coming to home health on or after Jan. 1, 2020.
- More agencies will turn to outsourced coding as a result of PDGM
Industry experts believe the use of outsourced coding will grow as a result of how the Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM) impacts coder productivity.
