The Home Health Guide to PDGM -CLOSEOUT ITEM

This guide takes the mystery out of PDGM by outlining the proper legal and financial steps to take to adapt — and what actions agencies should avoid.  Additionally, learn how to properly manage costs and improve operational efficiencies while ensuring patients continue to receive high-quality care during this challenging time.  

The Home Health Guide to PDGM also offers guidance on fully, accurately coding — ensuring you understand codes that will no longer be accepted as primary diagnoses under PDGM and that your agency is paid accurately for care provided during 30-day payment periods. The guide also will provide tips on filling out the OASIS items that affect functional case-mix adjustment.

Exclusive Features:

·        Patient-specific scenarios that help explain the difference in how agencies will be paid under PDGM vs. the PPS.

·        Exclusive tools including checklists to help agencies prepare.

·        Breakdown of how PDGM will work, including admission source, timing, clinical groupings, functional impairment levels and comorbidities.

·        Guidance on proper steps to take to adapt to PDGM — and what agencies should avoid doing because it’s too risky from a legal or financial perspective.

·        Review of how RAPs and LUPAs will change from the PPS to PDGM.

·        Examination of how agencies can improve the level of detail they gather at intake and what questions should be asked that currently aren’t.

·        Explanation about how nurses and therapists can improve the accuracy and detail of documentation they provide.

·        Details about how agencies can become more efficient in the provision of care.

·        Breakdown of how coding will change under PDGM, including what primary diagnoses won’t be acceptable under the new payment model.

·        Process improvements agencies should make to their billing departments.