Home Health Therapy: Connect the Dots to Keep Your Therapy Reimbursement Flowing

Make certain therapy-related diagnosis codes are supported by OASIS functional items.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has therapy in the cross hairs. Make sure you're doing your part to prevent audit trouble.

Keep an Eye on Documentation

When it comes to keeping your therapy claims audit-proof, it's not the diagnosis codes you list that make the difference -- it's the therapist's documentation. And it's "your responsibility as a coder to be an advocate with the therapist to connect the dots between the documentation and the diagnosis codes," says Trish Twombly, BSN, RN, HCS-D, CHCE, COS-C, HCS-O director of coding with Foundation Management [...]

- Published on 2012-01-27