Home Health Line
09/15/2014
CMS’ plan — as stated in the proposed 2015 home health rule — to require a patient’s medical record contain evidence of the patient’s eligibility for Medicare home health has been interpreted in various ways and has elicited dozens of comments.
09/15/2014
The number of immediate jeopardy citations — situations that cause potential or real patient harm — imposed following CMS surveys increased each year from 2010 through 2013. And the industry is on pace for even more immediate jeopardies this year, data CMS provided to HHL show.
09/15/2014
Clinicians reading CMS’ draft OASIS-C1/ICD-9 guidance manual instructions for M2002 (Medication follow-up) should take care to note that the phrase “without physician involvement” does not signify a shift in guidance for answering this process measure item.
09/15/2014
Educating patients about proper nutrition, using telehealth and supplying patients with heart-failure kits has allowed VNA, Western Pennsylvania to have a rehospitalization rate of less than 2% for those within the agency’s heart failure program.
09/15/2014
CMS has released the first version of its quality assurance guidelines for the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) hospice survey.
09/15/2014
Agencies in 19 states have had immediate jeopardy situations since 2009, according to data CMS provided to HHL.
09/15/2014
This chart shows the percentages of patients affected by risk factors listed on M1036 (Risk factors) including heavy smoking, obesity and alcohol and drug dependencies.
09/15/2014
Hospices can begin selecting their vendor to conduct the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) hospice survey now that CMS has released the list of conditionally approved vendors.
09/08/2014
Dozens of agencies nationwide have placed patients in immediate jeopardy, data CMS provided HHL show. Here are triggers to identify areas in which your agency may be at risk for immediate jeopardy citations.

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