Home Health Line
09/26/2016
Educate home health aides about skin condition changes. That’s one step your agency could take immediately to prepare for the revised aide services condition included within the proposed Home Health Conditions of Participation (CoPs).
09/26/2016
Under a new federal requirement, your agency must post information in its office and on its website that language assistance will be available and that you won’t discriminate against patients for any reason.
09/26/2016
Clinicians should examine the labels of their patients’ soaps to see whether they contain any of 19 different active ingredients that can no longer be marketed a year from now. If the soaps contain one or more of those ingredients, clinicians should educate the patient about why to consider buying products that don’t contain those ingredients.
09/26/2016
Review and revise the election statement your hospice provides patients to make clear the care you offer is palliative and that by signing the statement, the patient is waiving the right to receive certain Medicare services.
09/26/2016
Learn to properly code the flu and its related complications. If you don’t, you risk submitting inaccurate claims.
09/26/2016
by: HHL's Proposed CoPs Survey
About 19% of the 312 respondents to a question on HHL’s Proposed CoPs survey plan to spend $501 to $1,000 so their agency can train in the next year to prepare for the revised Home Health Conditions of Participation (CoPs).
09/16/2016
by: CMS
Clinicians should check patients’ soap to see if it contains any of the 19 active ingredients the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said should not be used in consumer antiseptic hand wash products. 

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