Home Health Line
12/22/2014
Agencies will need to place even more focus on coordination of care to improve process measures and outcome measures now that CMS is proposing to score them with a 5-star system that could impact referrals in 2015. 
 
12/22/2014
Beginning Jan. 1, home health agencies must report work-related in-patient hospitalizations of one or more employees to the Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA). Such hospitalizations must be reported within 24 hours of the agency learning about them. 
 
12/22/2014
Outsourcing your agency’s information technology (IT) roles can save it tens of thousands of dollars, a significant savings in indirect costs in the wake of years of regulatory cuts to the industry.
 
12/22/2014
Improve your patient satisfaction scores on Home Health Compare by creating action plans for patients that identify their overall goal for home health treatment — such as being able to go to the beauty parlor or to lose weight — and break that goal down into weekly steps that can be measured and tracked. 
 
12/22/2014
CMS has provided doctors with several examples to use within their documentation to justify a patient’s homebound status and need for skilled care.
 
12/22/2014
by: Trish Twombly
Your agency could lose more than $200 per episode for common home health diabetes scenarios such as the one below. 
 
12/22/2014
by: Financial Monitor
The data below show the national median figures for home health agencies’ indirect costs as a percentage of total costs and of revenue 

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