Home Health Line
08/21/2017
by: Katherine J. Vanderhorst and Amy Craven
As part of a routine assessment for all patients, agencies should begin conducting a Brief Interview for Mental Status (BIMS) to detect patients’ cognitive impairments.
08/21/2017
The rehospitalization rate for coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery patients receiving home care dipped by more than 1% when comparing 2015 and 2016, but there are still more steps agencies can take to reduce rehospitalization rates even more.
08/21/2017
The revised OASIS-C2 guidance manual encourages clinicians to collaborate with the patient, caregivers and other health care personnel on all OASIS data items within the comprehensive assessment.
08/21/2017
Have clinicians sign an agreement that they will comply with tablet policies as a condition of employment. This will keep protected health information (PHI) safe and help your agency avoid unnecessary risk.
08/21/2017
Conditions linked in the alphabetic index by the word “in” should be considered related even without provider documentation of such, making it equivalent to the way conditions are now linked by the “with” convention. This will be the case as of Oct. 1, when the FY2018 official coding guidelines go into effect.
08/21/2017
by: Minneapolis-based ABILITY Network, Inc.
Rehospitalization rates for coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery patients improved by 1.1% in 2016 compared to 2015, according to new data from Minneapolis-based ABILITY Network, Inc.

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