OASIS Toolkit: Use These 4 Steps To Minimize Adverse Drug Reactions

Posted on 26. Jan, 2010 by Editor.

Following these steps will make M2010 and M2015 easier to answer.

Here’s the most important question to ask yourself about each of the patient’s medications: “Is there a good reason for not stopping this medicine?”

Two new OASIS C process…

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Home Health Coding: 3 Steps Pinpoint The Correct Dementia ICD-9

Posted on 20. Oct, 2009 by sanjay.aikat.

Hint: You’ll never report 294.1 alone.

If your patients’ physicians are like most, they document that patients have dementia but don’t provide specifics about the type or cause.

Problem: Without specifics, you are likely under-reporting patients’actual conditions. Follow this expert…

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Avoid These Hospice Eligibility Pitfalls

Posted on 28. May, 2009 by seank.

If your hospice hasn’t taken a good look at how it determines–and documents–patients’ eligibility for the Medicare hospice benefit, you’re fair game for everything from payment recoupments to fraud and abuse investigations.

There’s no shortage of reasons for hospices to…

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