Home Health Line
01/17/2018
CMS has sent a memo to state survey agency directors about the new tags surveyors should use to survey under the revised Home Health Conditions of Participation (CoPs), which took effect Jan. 13.
01/16/2018
CMS provided the following memo to state survey agency directors on Jan. 12 regarding the revised Home Health Conditions of Participation (CoPs).
01/16/2018
View the attachments that accomplanied a new CMS memo about the revised Home Health Conditions of Participation.
01/09/2018
CMS will hold a special open door forum 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. EST Jan. 23 to offer education about the change from Social Security Number-based Health Insurance Claim Numbers to new Medicare Beneficiary Identifiers (MBIs).
01/05/2018
Be sure to include the following elements when updating your notice of patient rights to comply with the revised Home Health Conditions of Participation (CoPs).
01/03/2018
by: CMS
The revised Home Health Conditions of Participation (CoPs) list seven reasons why an agency can transfer/discharge a patient.
01/02/2018
If you find inaccurate demographic data on your hospice’s Provider Preview Report or on Hospice Compare, you should contact your hospice’s Medicare Administrative Contractor (MAC) for assistance.
12/22/2017
Agencies should provide these steps to clinicians to help ensure they understand how to fill out GG0170C (Mobility). CMS walked providers through these steps as part of recently posted online provider training.
12/20/2017
DecisionHealth editors surveyed readers and interviewed experts to come up with several predictions of what will affect providers in 2018.
12/18/2017
by: Camellia Home Health and Hospice
Rather than putting staff through an OASIS boot camp, Camellia Home Health and Hospice has focused on a different line item of OASIS each week, developing scenarios so clinical staff can understand the reasons behind each requirement and how that documentation benefits the patient. View the following bed transferring scenario the agency has used.

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