Home Care Resources

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

 FY 2011 ICD-9 Code Changes

  1. FY 2011 Tabular
  2. FY 2011 Index Changes

 

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

 

Quality Improvement Links

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

 

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

 

Popular references
  1. States that Block HIV transmission
  2. Daymarck Wound Reference ***

 

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!
  8. OASIS‐C Best Practice Manual
  9. OASIS Consideration for Medicare PPS Patients
  10. Process-Based Quality Improvement (PBQI) Manual - New!

 

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

 

 

Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurses Society (WOCN)

HHC Relevant Position Papers

 

Resources from HHA Community

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Legislation Issues

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