Home Health Line
06/09/2014
CMS will post the OASIS-C1 guidance manual soon, Patricia Sevast, a nurse consultant with the Survey and Certification Group at CMS, told HHL.
06/09/2014
Home health conditions of participation (CoPs) to be revised in the coming months. The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) began its most recent review of the home health CoPs on May 22. However, it likely will be “a few months at a minimum” before the proposed CoPs are published, estimates the National Association for Home Care & Hospice. The last major update for CoPs occurred in 1989.
 
06/09/2014
Wheaton Franciscan Home Health & Hospice, Inc. didn’t start to recognize the full benefits of cloud computing until last February when the agency’s managers provided its nurses, therapists and clinicians with Verizon Mobile Hotspots.
06/09/2014
Agencies that have made the switch to storing information in “the cloud,” or a remote server rather than on an in-house client server, are recognizing the benefits of secure data and  reduced costs in maintaining IT departments and servers onsite.
06/09/2014
Have discussions with patients about certain end-of-life preferences — such as whether they want life-sustaining treatments or spiritual counseling.
 
06/09/2014
You’ll no longer submit OASIS assessment data to CMS via your state databases at the end of the year. Instead, beginning next year, OASIS assessment data will be submitted to CMS via the Assessment Submission And Processing (ASAP) system, the federal Medicare agency says.
06/09/2014
Agencies that have had denied Medicare claims snagged in what’s now a nearly three-year wait for administrative law judge (ALJ) reviews will have a lot more company by Sept. 30, when federal fiscal year 2014 ends.
06/09/2014
More than one-third of agencies plan to choose a blended approach, using a combination of Internet-based and client-server-based systems when making future software purchases, according to the 2013-2014 National State of the Industry Report for Home Health and Hospice by Fazzi Associates in Northampton, Mass.

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