Home Health Line
12/13/2017
View the letter home health agencies have provided CMS about HHGM.
12/08/2017
Yet another report from the HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) indicates that Medicaid personal care services are vulnerable to fraud and require greater oversight.
12/05/2017
CMS will hold a webinar Dec. 14 to discuss why it's finalizing a plan to eliminate “Influenza immunization received for current flu season” from the list of measures used to calculate home health quality of care star ratings.
12/01/2017
CMS has finalized its plan to cancel four mandatory episode payment models for common cardiac and orthopedic conditions, according to a rule posted Nov. 30. The models had been due to begin in January.
12/01/2017
Following a recent DecisionHealth webinar about the draft interpretive guidelines on the revised Home Health Conditions of Participation (CoPs), agencies asked questions to attorney Robert Markette of Indianapolis-based Hall, Render, Killian, Heath & Lyman. Here is his answer to a question about patient rights.
11/13/2017
The following is an example of something that would be included in thorough, detailed EMR notes that would help the interdisciplinary team overall do a better job with a patient’s pain.
10/25/2017
by: CMS
There are 360 agencies nationwide that earned five stars in the ratings system involving quality of care, according to ratings released in October 2017. Meanwhile, 959 agencies received 4.5 stars.
10/25/2017
by: CMS
Only 542 agencies nationwide earned five stars in the ratings system involving HHCAHPS, according to the ratings released in October 2017. That’s a 64% decrease from July 2017.
09/19/2017
During the Private Duty Platinum Awards event, professionals and organizations come together to highlight their work, be publicly recognized, celebrate successes and collectively recognize the high-level of work that makes a positive impact on the lives of their clients. The finalists and winners, as determined by an expert panel of judges, for DecisionHealth’s inaugural Platinum Awards – Private Duty, have been posted! 
09/11/2017
Get ready to collect as many as 15 new OASIS data elements involving cancer, respiration, IVs and tubes and nutritional approaches starting in 2019 if CMS finalizes a proposed change announced in the 2018 PPS rule.

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