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05/16/2024
Make sure that you’re training clinicians annually on best practices around workplace violence prevention. It’s one of the key recommendations from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) following the death of a home health clinician in Connecticut in October.
05/09/2024
Hospice, home health and other post-acute care providers are getting a clearer picture of CMS’ plans for capturing Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) items in the future, with a request for information in the hospice payment rule laying out questions CMS envisions asking patients.
05/02/2024
Agencies nationwide will want to closely monitor CMS for updates to the Review Choice Demonstration (RCD) as it appears set to expire on May 31, but could be extended in the current six states or expanded to more.
04/25/2024
Industry leaders have argued against the 80-20 rule, noting the other costs that the rule doesn’t account for and the potential that this will negatively impact access to home care services as some agencies are expected to close or exit the Medicaid program.
04/18/2024
CMS’ new HHCAHPS fact sheet provides a standardized way for agencies to educate patients to look for the surveys and hopefully improve response rate.
04/11/2024
One of the biggest challenges for hospice providers over the next 18 months is going to be staff education around the new quality measures tied to the Hospice Outcomes and Patient Evaluation instrument.
04/04/2024
Industry leaders are blasting a proposed fiscal year 2025 hospice payment rate update, as CMS finally pushes forward with significant changes to the CAHPS Hospice survey and hospice quality reporting, including the implementation of the Hospice Outcomes and Patient Evaluation (HOPE) instrument.
03/28/2024
The new guidance also adds three emergency preparedness items to the list of standard Level 1 reviews. This likely means that emergency planning will become a focus in surveys and generate additional deficiencies that agencies haven’t seen.
03/21/2024
A patient having prior home health experience can alleviate the anxiety of having clinicians in a patient’s home when hospice care is needed.
03/14/2024
One of the main causes for delayed claims is that the referral reason is for something such as “frequent falls due to weakness,” but there is a lack of supporting documentation to support what is causing the weakness.

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