PDGM and Therapy

Session Description

Therapists must reinvent their focus from number of visits, to the value they bring to agency outcomes. This session will describe the value to revenue through contributions to accurate OASIS coding; the value to cost effectiveness through patient engagement and good care coordination; and the value to clinical outcomes through using appropriate skill sets for our most common home health diagnoses and conditions.

Presentation Objectives

• Describe the changes in PDGM from PPS
• • Changes in the Groupings Model
  • Impact on therapy from eliminating thresholds in the PPS case mix

• List how therapy can and should influence the Groupings in their own agency
• • Interdisciplinary team collaboration

•  Explain how reasonable and necessary therapy plans of care should directly relate to outcomes home health agencies need
• • Explain reasonable and necessary therapy plans of care should directly relate to outcomes home health agencies need
  • Rehabilitation clinical groupings
  • MMTA clinical groupings

About the Presenter

Karen Vance, BSOT, Senior Managing Consultant, BKD, LLP