Home Health Line
02/16/2015
Whether Medicare savings at the expense of home health will be used to offset the budgetary cost of replacing the flawed sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula for setting physician rates is a question that may not be answered quickly.
 
02/16/2015
Agencies preparing for ICD-10 should reexamine their data security policies — and make sure to address those policies with staff. Doing so could help agencies prevent a significant and costly data breach, or at least lessen chances that one will occur.
 
02/16/2015
CMS will implement its new 5-Star rating system on Home Health Compare using half-star increments instead of the full-star increments as previously discussed. The first stars can be viewed by the public starting in July and will be updated quarterly. 
 
02/16/2015
Part of the key to improving OASIS outcomes at the start of care (SOC) is having therapists, who are specialists in improving activities of daily living (ADLs), train nurses to understand what a term like ‘safely’ means when answering an item like M1860 (Ambulation).
 
02/16/2015
Make sure your hospice’s social workers and chaplains properly train nurses about how to recognize and treat anxiety and sadness in patients who refuse the help of social workers or chaplains.
 
02/16/2015
CMS held an open door forum Feb. 11 to discuss the benefits of clinical templates it is creating for doctors to use when documenting a face-to-face visit with a patient.
 
02/16/2015
by: Strategic Health Programs
A question about providing help for feelings of anxiety or sadness scored worse than another other question in the Hospice CAHPS Survey, according to pre-dry run data released Jan. 28 by Strategic Healthcare Programs in Santa Barbara, Calif.
 

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