2011: Update: New to Homecare? Info to get you started

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Specializes in Vents, Telemetry, Home Care, Home infusion.

check out cahaba's:

coverage guidelines for home health agencies (aug 06 revision)

94 pages of great advice in easy to read format.

medicare reference guide: home health coverage guidelines updated link 5/15/2008

especially helpful is:

70 conditions the patient must meet (pg. 23)

70.15 documentation of homebound status (pg.26)

70.10 beneficiaries who are not homebound (pg. 25+26)

80.30 prn orders (pg.34)

80.40 verbal/oral orders (pg.35)

90 covered skilled nursing services (pg. 38 -40)

90.5 principle one: requires the skills of a nurse

90.10 principle two: service is not skilled because performed by a nurse

90.15 principle three: service does not become unskilled because it is taught

90.20 principle four: reasonable and necessary

100 skilled nursing services (pg. 40)

100.10 management and evaluation of the care plan(pg. 41)

100.5 observation and assessment (pg. 42)

110 teaching and training activities (pg. 43)

110.5 administration of medications (pg. 44)

110.40 prefilling syringes (pg. 46)

110.70 catheters (pg. 48)

110.75 wound care (pg49)

110.115 diabetes outpatient self-management training (dsmt) (effective 1/1 2004) (pg. 51)

110.120 foot care (pg. 53)

110.130 psychiatric nursing (pg. 54)

140.30 safety dependence/secondary complications (pg. 59)

150 general principles for reasonable and necessary physical, speech, and occupational therapy (pg. 60)

200.5 covered home health aide activities (pg. 71)

210 drugs & biologicals

drugs and biologicals are generally excluded from coverage under the medicare home health benefit. there are a few exceptions from this exclusion.

210.5 drugs covered by medicare part b (pg. 73)

these drugs include hepatitis b vaccine, hemophilia clotting factors, calcitonin, pneumococcal pneumonia vaccine, influenza virus vaccine, and intravenous immune globulin (ivig)

220 coverage exclusions (pg. 76)

240.20 blood glucose monitor (pg. 80)

240.35 protime test systems (pg. 81) * not covered

240.75 covered medical supplies (pg. 82)

240.80 routine medical supplies (pg..83) * not covered

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Specializes in MS Home Health.

Excellent! Thanks!

renerian :w00t:

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Specializes in Vents, Telemetry, Home Care, Home infusion.

Nurse.com CE articles for those new to HomeCare

from nursing spectrum/ nurse week ---now nurses.com updated links 4/9/08

course: 60085 - 5.3 hrs

getting started in home care

author: bethany schroeder, ms, mfa, rn

ce109-60e - 1.0 hr

[color=#91278e]for nurses new to home care

authors: terry aisenstein, rn, ma & jennifer savon, rn, ms, chpn

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i desperately need a book like that but searched and searched and couldn't find it. i recently bought springhouse's guidelines for reimbursement/documentation but it was mostly fluff-stuff anyone should already know. i need meat and potatoes!

anyone know where to find it? bookfinder.com, ebay and amazon didn't have it...sob

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Specializes in Vents, Telemetry, Home Care, Home infusion.
i need meat and potatoes!

look at these books by tina m. marrelli--helped me

[color=#996633]handbook of home health orientation

diagnosis coding and writing homecare plan of treatments:

[color=#003399]handbook of home health standards and documentation -- guidelines for reimbursement

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Specializes in OB, M/S, HH, Medical Imaging RN.

Hi Karen, I can't acesss the info in the post. The link is not working?

Thanks!

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Specializes in Vents, Telemetry, Home Care, Home infusion.

Fixed the link for you!

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Specializes in OB, M/S, HH, Medical Imaging RN.

Thank you sooooo much!

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Specializes in Vents, Telemetry, Home Care, Home infusion.

found today home health quick reference guide supplement -updated 4/08

https://www.cahabagba.com/part_a/education_and_outreach/educational_materials/hha.htm

contains:

[color=#231f20]10 medicare educational resources quick reference guide

[color=#231f20]40 home health certification and plan of care (poc)

[color=#231f20]40.5 coding clues[color=#231f20]

40.5.5 basic icd-9-cm coding

40.5.10 patient's wound care

40.5.15 coding for specific diagnoses

40.5.20 coding a primary diagnosis with therapy services

40.5.25 coding of chronic conditions in home health

[color=#231f20]50 wound care flow sheet[color=#231f20]

[color=#231f20]60 home health quick reference sheets

[color=#231f20]60.5 home health prospective payment system (hh pps) cheat sheet

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60.10 special billing situations under hh pps

[color=#231f20]60.15 home health medicare billing codes sheet

[color=#231f20]60.20 submitting requests for anticipated payment (raps) in msp situations

[color=#231f20]60.25 home health billing and medicare secondary payer sheet

[color=#231f20]60.30 hh abn (cms-r-296) regulations and billing procedures

[color=#231f20]60.35 outpatient home health services reference sheet

[color=#231f20]60.40 m0175 14 day look-up table

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cms--official home health regulations

chapter 7 - home health services

above revised 2008 : home health conditions of participation—42 cfr 484.1 globe.jpg

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What the surveyors are looking for:

http://www.cms.hhs.gov/GuidanceforLawsAndRegulations/downloads/som107ap_b_hha.pdf

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Specializes in neuro, m/s, renal, ortho, home health.

I've worked in a hospital for about 5 years now. I'm really sick of all the short staffing. I feel like pts and family members can be very demanding but thought if I got into Home Health it might be better....after all I would be meeting them on their turf. Any comments would be appreciated!

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