Home Health Care News September 13, 2020
Since the implementation of the Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM), home health providers have taken a number of measures to ensure success amid the payment shakeup.
Two of PDGM’s biggest changes are the model’s new 30-day billing periods and how it handles therapy reimbursement.
One provider — Recover Health — has chosen to extend plans of care and how it utilizes therapy visits as a core part of its transition strategy.
“For whatever reason, we were doing a lot of visits early. I think there was a little bit of human behavior involved in that,” Greg Von Arx, CEO of Recover Health, told Home Health Care News. “After 30 days, the therapist has to do another assessment. Most of the time,...