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Home-Based Fall Evaluations and Interventions

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Home-Based Fall Evaluations and Interventions
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Original Effective Date
10/01/2015
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04/11/2019
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The goal of this article is to provide a framework for the communication of information that both clinicians and Medicare need to make patient-centered decisions.

Services provided by HHAs under the 32x bill type are reimbursed under the Home Health Prospective Payment System (HH PPS), while those delivered under the 34x bill type are reimbursed as Part B Outpatient Rehabilitation Services. Part B Outpatient Rehabilitation Services (with the exception of those furnished by or under arrangements with a hospital) are subject to the financial limitations described in the CMS Internet-Only Manual, Pub. 100-04, Medicare Claims Processing Manual, Chapter 5, Section 10.2.

This article underscores the importance of a comprehensive evaluation of the circumstances surrounding the documented fall event(s). It is important that a comprehensive examination and evaluation including a detailed history as well as neurological/sensory, musculoskeletal, and vascular/cardiopulmonary systems reviews be documented. Palmetto GBA is addressing this need through an approach called Going Beyond Diagnosis® (GBD). GBD promotes use of the International Classification of Functioning Disability and Health (ICF) to capture and organize the information necessary to support the clinical and administrative needs of HHAs performing home-based fall evaluations and interventions.

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04/11/2019 R7

Under Article Text deleted the first paragraph, deleted the first sentence in the second paragraph and added verbiage “The goal of this article is to provide a framework for the communication of information that both clinicians and Medicare need to make patient-centered decisions”, deleted “This LCD” from the first sentence in the third paragraph and added “This article”, deleted “agrees with this observation and” from the third sentence in the third paragraph, and deleted the fourth paragraph.

01/25/2018 R6

Annual validation with no revisions made.

04/07/2016 R5 Under Article Text added the following verbiage to the second paragraph: CMS Internet-Only Manual, Pub. 100-04 and deleted the hyperlink to the Medicare Claims Processing Manual. Under CMS Manual Explanations URLs deleted the hyperlink to the Medicare Claims Processing Manual.
02/11/2016 R4 Under Article Text in the last sentence of the first paragraph added "s" to therapist. In the first sentence of the second paragraph deleted the "s" from LCDs.
06/11/2015 R3 Per CMS Internet-Only Manual, Pub 100-08, Medicare Program Integrity Manual, Chapter 13, §13.1.3 LCDs consist of only “reasonable and necessary” information. All bill type and revenue codes have been removed from the LCDs. For consistency, they are also being removed from the articles.
10/01/2015 R2 Removed 033x Bill Type as per Change request 8244.
10/01/2015 R1 Added CMS Manual Citation to Associated Documents. Corrected Hyper-links in Article Text.
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Medicare BPM Ch 15.50.2 SAD Determinations
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Keywords

  • Fall