Special Episode! 2024 Year-End Review for Homecare and Hospice Coding and Compliance Updates

On this special episode of AHCC Talk, the panel does a year-end wrap-up of the home care industry's coding and compliance changes, including OASIS E1, COVID-19 vaccination status, coding and hospice-specific updates, GG items, and a face-to-face refresher.
This episode's panel includes:
Jan Milliman, HCS-D, Director, AHCC
Apryl Swafford, RN, BSN, COS-C, HCS-D, HCS-H, HCS-O, QA Manager, SimiTree Healthcare Consulting
Nanette Minton, RN, HCS-D, HCS-H, HCS-O, Senior Clinical Coding Manager, MAC Legacy
Kelly Kavanaugh, RN, HCS-D, HCS-H, HCS-O, BCHH-C, Independent Home Health and Hospice Consultant, owner of the OTB Group
Christine Mickel, PTA, HCS-D, HCS-O, HCS-H, Manager, OASIS and Coding, McBee Associates
(1:48) What's new with OASIS E1 with Apryl Swafford
(2:38) Additions
(3:28) COVID-19 vaccination status
(5:27) Removals
(6:47) Revisions
(7:30) Updates
(8:03) Clarifications
(10:30) Coding updates and hospice-specific updates with Nanette Minton
(18:22) GG items with Kelly Kavanaugh
(18:30) DC function score
(21:08) If your patient is unable to ambulate
(21:35) DC function score, defined
(23:20) Expected functional discharge score
(24:33) Illustration
(25:54)What items are used for risk adjustment?
(29:10) Face-to-face refresher with Christine Mickel
(34:18) AHCC member discount
(34:54) What's new with AHCC