Daymarck knows that home health-care medical coding can be challenging at times and that finding the right resources can be equally daunting. In an effort to serve our clients and the industry better, we have put together a list of resources and bits of information that we find quite valuable.

Please consider this page your resource library for various medical coding questions. As always, feel free to contact us should you have any further needs.

Daymarck Thought Leadership

1. What Agencies Must Do To Survive
2. Why Home Health Coders Hold the Edge as the Healthcare Arena Continues to Change
3. From our blog: Elizabeth Hogue's timely article Face-to-Face Encounters by Medical Directors

ICD-10 Code Changes

1. Daymarck ICD-10 Survey October 2011
2. 10 Things You Should be Doing Now to Prepare for ICD-10
   
3. Daymarck ICD-10 Blog Posts

ICD-9 Code Changes

1. FY 2011 Tabular
2. FY 2011 Index Changes
3. Partial Code Freeze Prior to ICD-10 Implementation

Online resources

1. Board of Medical Specialty (BMSC)
2. Association of Home Care Coders - AHCC
3. National Association for Home Care and Hospice
4. American Association For Homecare
5. NPI Registry Lookup
6. BMI Calculator

PPS

1. Conditions of Participation: Home Health Agencies (10-1-09 Edition)
2. Home Health Agency Interpretive Guidlines (Appendix B)
3. Medicare Benefits Policy Manual
4. CY 2010 Home Health PPS Wage Index File
5. CY 2011 Home Health PPS Wage Index File
6. Home Health Consolidated Billing Master Code List
7. HHRG Calculation tables v3.1
8. Non-Routine Supply CM Chart

Frequently used links - OASIS

1. OASIS-C Guidance Manual
2. OASIS-C Guidance Manual Errata
3. Attachment D
4. WOCN Guidance on OASIS-C Integumentary Items
5. NAHC OASIS-C Training Videos – FREE!
6. OASIS Q & A’s
7. Want to submit an OASIS question to CMS? - Let them have it!  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
8. OASIS‐C Best Practice Manual
9. OASIS Consideration for Medicare PPS Patients
10. Process-Based Quality Improvement (PBQI) Manual
11. Outcome Based Quality Improvement (OBQI) Manual - Updated
12. Outcome Based Quality Management (OBQM) Manual - Updated

Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurses Society (WOCN)

HHC Relevant Position Papers

1. Avoidable Versus Unavoidable Pressure Ulcers (2009)
2. Clinical Issues in Clean Intermittent Catheterization (2009)
3. Pressure Ulcer Staging (2007)
4. Photography in Wound Documentation (2005)
5. Clean vs Sterile: Management of Chronic Wounds (2005)
6. Conservative Sharp Wound Debridement for Registered Nurses (1996)

Legislation Issues

1. Home Health Care Planning Improvement Act of 2010
2. Home Health Care Planning Improvement Act of 2009

Quality Improvement Links

1. MedPac Report
2. Home Health Quality Improvement (HHQI)
3. MedQIC
4. Data Management article
5. Home Health Compare

Popular references

1. States that Block HIV transmission
2. Daymarck Wound Reference ***
3. Impact of Human Factors on Home Care Quality and Safety
4. NAHC F2F Physician Survey

HHC Blog Sites to Watch

1. Daymarck
2. Home Care Referral-Man (I'm not kidding)
3. Medicare Update
4. Ankota Healthcare Delivery
5. OASIS-Central - Beacon Health
6. Home Health Insight - Lisa Selman-Holman

Resources from HHA Community

1. Generic Documentation Review
2. Skilled Nursing Documentation Review
3. Physical Therapy Documentation Review
4. Occupational Therapy Documentation Review
5. Speech-Language Pathology Documentation Review
6. Medical Social Worker Documentation Review
7. OASIS-C Correction Form
8. OASIS-C Chart Review
9. FTF Encounter Form 

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