Issue date: March 18th, 2022

Here are some home health related updates for this week:

AMITY’S NEWS

ICD-10 Coding and Clinical Documentation Review

Amity Healthcare Group is offering a variety of options for home health organizations to outsource ICD-10 coding and clinical documentation review. Whether you are looking for ICD-10 coding support, OASIS review, or an episodic documentation review, our clinical professionals will be able to support your needs.

• Efficiency
• Expertise
• Improved quality measures/scores
• Lower cost of doing business
• Prompt and proper payment
• Ability to prioritize patient care

Working with Amity Healthcare Group, you will be able to take advantage of:

• Dedicated clinical professional assigned to your organization
• 24-48 hours turnaround time
• EMR flexibility (Axxess, Wellsky, Netsmart, etc.)
• HIPPA compliant communication
• Ongoing communication and monthly management reporting
• QAPI/PIP development
• Individualized training

Burnout and compassion fatigue affect the entire organization as well as the patients served. This presentation is intended to give clinicians and non-clinicians alike a new perspective on how to care for themselves, each other, and take ownership of creating a welcoming and healthier workplace for all.

Learning objective:

• Understand definitions and implications of burnout and compassion fatigue on direct care providers in the healthcare industry.
• Identify the role of the team and organization in cultivating a culture that helps create a “shield” against burnout and compassion fatigue.
• Brainstorm ways to increase care satisfaction within yourself, your team, and your organization to improve staff retention and quality of care for the patients you serve.

Provider Relief Fund

Just a reminder that health care providers who received Provider Relief Fund payments exceeding $10,000 total between July 1 and Dec. 31, 2020, must report to the Health Resources and Services Administration by March 31 on how they used those funds or face enforcement actions such as repayment or exclusion from receiving or retaining future PRF payments.

• You are out of compliance with the PRF Terms and Conditions and must return your Payment Period 1 PRF payment(s) to HRSA.
• Non-compliant providers will be excluded from receiving and/or retaining future PRF payments – including any applicable Phase 4 payments.
• HRSA will seek repayment on all PRF payments received between April 10, 2020 – June 30, 2020 and not reported on during Reporting Period 1.
• For more details on non-compliance, review the Reporting Non-Compliance Fact Sheet (PDF – 158 KB)

For additional information and resources, please go to: https://www.hrsa.gov/provider-relief

Should you have questions, please contact the iQIES Help Desk by phone at (800) 339-9313 or by email at iQIES@cms.hhs.gov

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