Tag: Hospitals

Rise in Patients Discharged to Home Health

The percentage of patients discharged from short-term acute care hospitals (STACH) to home health has risen from 11 percent in May 2019 to 19 percent one calendar year later, according to a new report from ATI Advisory. The number of patients discharged from STACH declined from over 800,000 patients in May 2019 to 558,296 in…

OIG: Poor Oversight Led Medicare to Overpay for Hospital Inpatient Claims with Post-Acute-Care Transfers to Home Health

A new report from the Office of Inspector General (OIG) has found that Medicare improperly paid most inpatient claims to the transfer policy when beneficiaries resumed homoe health services within three days of of discharge but the hospitals failed to code the inpatient claim properly and recommends the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)…

Study: Poor Communication from Hospitals to Home Health Puts Patients at Risk

Serious communications problems exist between hospitals and home health clinicians, putting the health of patients at risk, according to a new study by the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. The study surveyed 50 home health care nurses, quality assurance clinicians, administrators and managers, finding that 60 percent of them reported receiving inadequate information to…

Proposed CMS Transfer Policy from Hospitals to Hospice Has Problems

The National Association of Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) has written a letter to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma, objecting to the proposed mechanism of the CMS plan to impose its post-acute transfer policy to hospice, beginning October 1, 2018. As a quick reminder, under the post-acute transfer policy, certain…