Category Archives: HomeCareLa Event Info

Letter and Invitation from Warren Hebert

Home health owners and administrators are gathering at the Embassy Suites in Baton Rouge next week, September 22nd, to hear about changes involving increased scrutiny for the provider community, presented by Greg Frost, JD, a healthcare attorney with 30 years of experience in Medicare home health. Continue reading

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Reasons Why You Can’t Afford to Miss OASIS Answers’ Workshops

Did you know that there have been several major changes to many of the official source documents that instruct home health coders how to assign ICD-9 codes just since September of 2009?  Do you know which documents these are, how … Continue reading

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What Will ICD-10 Look Like? An Intro to ICD-10-CM, ICD-10-PCS & the GEMs

What will you be doing on October 1, 2013?  If you’re like all the other home health agencies you’ll be using the new ICD-10 diagnostic and procedural coding dataset. That implementation date was posted in the Federal Register a couple … Continue reading

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