Home Health Line
05/08/2017
CMS on June 1 will provide hospices preview reports in advance of Hospice Compare’s launch. This will be hospices’ first chance to see how they’ll stack up against the nation when Hospice Compare appears this summer.
05/08/2017
by: SHP, Santa Barbara, Calif.
Although pain assessment likely will be the lowest scoring of the seven HIS measures to be included on Hospice Compare, Strategic Healthcare Programs (SHP) clients have made significant improvement on it in the past year. Pain assessment improved to 87.7% in 2016 from 78.3% in 2015 among the 1,400 hospice locations from which Santa Barbara, Calif.-based SHP collects quality data.
05/08/2017
A QAPI Land board game. Guidance about 5-star ratings posted in agency bathroom stalls. The “Outcomes Owl.” These are just a few outside-the-box strategies one home health company used to dramatically increase its star ratings in quality. The efforts paid off, as four of its 34 locations have improved to 5 stars — including Mays Home Care’s location in Tulsa, Okla. That location improved several stars to become a 5-star agency when Home Health Compare was updated April 12.
05/08/2017
Most agencies that earned 5-star ratings in quality of care when Home Health Compare was updated April 12 have been standout agencies for a long time.
05/08/2017
It might seem like cause for long-term concern when you see hospices only are expected to receive a 1% payment increase in 2018 — compared to a 2.1% increase in 2017.
05/08/2017
by: Mays Home Care
This tool can be used to play QAPI Land, a game to help with quality improvement.
05/08/2017
Following a recent DecisionHealth webinar about how to comply with the Home Health Conditions of Participation (CoPs), agencies asked questions to attorney Robert Markette of Indianapolis-based Hall, Render, Killian, Heath & Lyman. Here are some of his answers.

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