Home Health Line
12/05/2016
After your agency tracks infection control data and identifies trends, it’s important to investigate causation versus correlation.
12/05/2016
Agencies that already increased employees’ salaries to avoid a new federal requirement to pay them overtime beginning Dec. 1 should strongly consider whether that decision still makes sense.
12/05/2016
Carefully capture your patients’ height and weight to ensure CMS accurately risk adjusts for pressure ulcers later.
12/05/2016
Alert clinicians and billers that CMS is adding new G codes to show whether skilled services are delivered by RNs or LPNs and that failure to use these codes could result in claims rejections.
12/05/2016
An upcoming quality measures (QM) report will provide hospices with greater detail than they’ve ever seen on the Hospice Item Set (HIS).
12/05/2016
A new change request from CMS educates Medicare contractors about the implementation of a separate payment for agencies involving disposable negative pressure wound therapy devices.
12/05/2016
by: ABILITY Network, Inc., Minneapolis
The 30-day rehospitalization rate for urinary tract infection (UTI) patients within 30 days of hospital discharge is 0.6%, while the 60-day hospitalization rate is 1.1%, according to data from Minneapolis-based ABILITY Network, Inc.
12/05/2016
by: Diane Link
Use these sample infection control forms for patients and clinicians.

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