tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2007 Issue 42

HOME HEALTH: Adapt To New Reimbursement Strategy With These 3 Tips

OASIS accuracy can make or break your agency in 2008Home health agencies can't avoid the 2008 payment cuts, but they can minimize them using one basic tool--their OASIS assessments.The 2008 prospective payment system revamps the mathematical calculation that determines the home health resource group and the episode payment. "This [new PPS payment plan] is a complicated beast," said Jeff Lewis, CEO of Baton Rouge, LA-based Lewis Inc.And, yes, somebody has to know how to calculate these payments, but it's not your clinicians, Lewis told listeners in an educational session at the National Association for Home Care...

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