Home Health Line
05/30/2016
Partners HealthCare at Home isn’t waiting to correct gaps in its operating protocols that could lead to low scores under the formula CMS is using to reshape Medicare reimbursement in its nine-state pilot test of value-based purchasing.
05/30/2016
CMS recently provided 2015 benchmarks and achievement thresholds to home health agencies within the nine states where the value-based purchasing project exists.
05/30/2016
In the wake of a U.S. Department of Labor final rule released May 18, Medicare home health agencies, hospices and private duty agencies must examine exempt employees’ current salaries. They’ll need to figure out how many people on their workforce will be below the salary threshold when the rule takes effect Dec. 1.
05/30/2016
by: SHP
Agencies participating in the nine-state value-based purchasing test can measure themselves against average national results for these 16 Home Health Compare measures — which are included in the 24 value-based purchasing measures — as a guide to improving their performance. 
05/30/2016
A new HHL survey reveals that more and more agencies are planning to invest in staff bonuses for their marketers. But while bonuses can be an effective way to motivate sales and marketing staff, agencies must be aware of potential legal implications for offering bonuses when contracting out marketing.
05/30/2016
For the past three years, Sterling Care in Greenwich, Conn., has tied staff bonuses to the number and types of admissions earned by the agency’s sales and marketing employees, clinicians and aides.
05/30/2016
Perform unannounced, ongoing audits involving the use of electronic signatures used by physicians, nurses or other providers at your agency. This should be done as part of your agency’s performance improvement program and include checking both the signers and those evaluating documents and signatures.

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