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Members support the association’s mission by earning and/or encouraging professional credentialing, participating in or sponsoring continuous professional education and training activities for skills maintenance, and participating in advocacy activities to help increase the visibility of the integral role home care plays in the care continuum.

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Prepare for thousands of FY2020 code changes, and more coding guidance changes including PDGM, that you will quickly need to understand in order to assign the correct codes and capture accurate reimbursement. To code claims accurately, you need a resource that is more than just the code set. You need a tool that will guide your code choices – DecisionHealth’s Complete Home Health ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Coding Manual, 2020.

Exclusive features:

• NEW! FY2020 code updates that will impact home health coding
• NEW! PDGM case-mix icons found in the Tabular so you can quickly and easily identify key coding and reimbursement conventions tied to a specific code. Quickly know which codes are acceptable primary diagnoses, and which ones generate a comorbidity adjustment in PDGM.
• Updated! More than 1,000 tips that include the latest Coding Clinic updates to guide you, raise red flags and help you code correctly to stay in compliance and gain accurate reimbursement.

Learn more about the manual here.

Take the mystery out of PDGM with the newest guide from DecisionHealth. This guide helps agencies transition from PPS to PDGM by outlining the proper legal and financial steps to take to adapt (and which to avoid), as well as how to properly manage costs, improve operational efficiencies and ensure patients continue to receive high-quality care during this challenging time. Exclusive benefits for this new resource include:

• The differences between how agencies will be paid under PDGM vs. PPS, explained through patient-specific scenarios
• Exclusive tools, including checklists, to help agencies prepare every department
• Coding guidance, including info on codes that will no longer be accepted

• Best practices to manage costs & improve operations during this change

Learn more about the guide here.

Prepare now for CMS’ new home health payment model – Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM) set to take effect Jan. 1, 20120, or you risk your agency’s financial viability.
NEW! Walk through the new Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM) to understand how your current admission, coding, documentation and billing processes will have to change.
NEW! Learn how to calculate your payment in the new PDGM payment system – will you be a winner or a loser?
NEW! Learn how to operate in a payment model based on 30-day episodes, elimination of therapy visits as a factor of payment, new LUPA thresholds

Learn more about the book here.

Increased efficiency is going to be vital for PDGM success. So why not start preparing today for the new payment model by turning to a home health-specific coding and OASIS review resource already used by thousands of your peers to code 50% faster with fewer denials and ADRs? 

The Home Health Coding Center is the perfect code lookup and decision-support resource for increasing productivity and accuracy today, through the transition to PDGM and beyond.

Learn more about Home Health Coding Center here.