Home Health Line
02/01/2016
Add progress notes and/or discharge summaries to the list when responding to additional documentation requests (ADRs) including during the “Probe and Educate” documentation review.
02/01/2016
When answering M1306 (Unhealed pressure ulcer at Stage 2 or higher), note that pressure ulcers are not caused by friction — say in the case of what appears to be a serum-filled traumatic blister at the heel of the foot — but by pressure and shearing forces.
02/01/2016
The recent discovery of new hacking threats to medical devices and systems is a reminder that you should go beyond the four walls of your agency when you perform your security risk analysis under HIPAA.
02/01/2016
Agencies should frontload visits during the initial days of home care for acute myocardial infarction (AMI) patients. But on days when patients are not scheduled to be seen, your agency’s clinicians should check in on them with a phone call.
02/01/2016
Hospices should educate doctors and discharge planners about two new CPT codes involving end-of-life discussions and planning with patients. Doing so could give doctors a bump in Medicare payments and hospices a bump in referrals.
02/01/2016
Hospices should educate doctors and discharge planners about two new CPT codes involving end-of-life discussions and planning with patients. Doing so could give doctors a bump in Medicare payments and hospices a bump in referrals.
02/01/2016
by: OCS HomeCare, Seattle, now part of ABILITY Network
Home health patients with AMI are rehospitalized within the first two weeks after the start of home health nearly 71% of the time, according to data from Seattle-based OCS HomeCare, now part of ABILITY Network. By comparison, patients with CHF are rehospitalized within the first two weeks 62.2% of the time.
02/01/2016
Task an administrative employee with calling each patient sometime within the first week of care and making sure patients are satisfied with your agency.

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