Home Health Line
10/20/2014
Clearly convey to patients and/or their caregivers their rights, verbally and in writing in a language they understand.
 
10/20/2014
CMS’ proposed conditions of participation (CoPs) could cost your agency thousands of dollars and as much as six months developing a quality assessment and performance improvement (QAPI) plan.
 
10/20/2014
The pending 2015 PPS rule for home health would eliminate one face-to-face sore point — the requirement that physicians provide a narrative explanation of why patients need home health services.
 
10/20/2014
When clinicians have difficulty finding out from patients or caregivers about whether the patient received a pneumococcal vaccination, necessary to fill out M1051 (Pneumococcal vaccine), have them check the common working file (CWF).
 
10/20/2014
Make sure your agency’s clinicians document their instructions to patients on the proper use and mixing of Dakin’s solution to treat chronic, infected surgical wounds or pressure ulcers and have them sign the written instructions to acknowledge they were provided.
 
 
10/20/2014
This graph shows the amount of time clinicians spend completing the existing OASIS-C assessment. Nearly 18% of agencies spend 76 to 90 minutes, for example.
 
10/20/2014
HHL has compiled this quick-reference tool to give you an outline of the major changes in the proposed Conditions of Participation (CoPs) for home health as well as the page numbers where you can read the full description of the changes. The proposed CoPs were posted Oct. 6. 
10/20/2014
View some of the many things the CoPs say about the new QAPI requirements
10/20/2014
Start preparing your agency now to comply with the revamped conditions of participation (CoPs) that CMS released Oct. 6. The federal Medicare agency’s proposal is expected to remain largely intact when finalized, the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) advised agencies during an Oct. 9 teleconference. As a result, NAHC says, agencies shouldn’t wait to prepare until CMS finalizes the rule and shouldn’t wait for surveyors to be trained to investigate the revamped CoPs.
 

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