Home Health Line
11/20/2017
Many agencies are expressing deep concern about the lack of detail — and confusing details — within portions of CMS’ long-awaited draft version of the interpretive guidelines for the revised Home Health Conditions of Participation (CoPs).
11/20/2017
Conduct a detailed nutritional assessment for all your home health patients. Ensuring patients have proper nutrition will help prevent them from developing wounds and/or infections that could lead to rehospitalizations, industry experts say.
11/20/2017
Home health agencies and other providers with a low volume of pending appeals at the administrative law judge (ALJ) level now have a new option available to them to get out of the massive appeals backlog.
11/20/2017
Home health agencies are receiving another opportunity to earn case-mix points for pulmonary diagnoses. That’s according to the new case-mix table published in the 2018 final PPS rule, which takes effect Jan. 1.
11/20/2017
After CMS review, The Joint Commission has finally prepublished revisions to the Emergency Management standards for home health agencies and other health care organizations to align with requirements in the new emergency preparedness Conditions of Participation (CoPs).
11/20/2017
Fewer than two months before the revised Home Health Conditions of Participation (CoPs) take effect, CMS has released more details about how agencies should work to convert subunits to branches or independent home health agencies.
11/20/2017
by: Minneapolis-based ABILITY Network Inc.
Instances of hospitalization due to infection are higher for patients with IVs, surgical wounds and ulcers than those without, according to a new data analysis from Minneapolis-based ABILITY Network Inc.
11/20/2017
by: Nestle
Home health agencies can use Nestlé’s Mini Nutritional Assessment to help identify patients who are malnourished or at risk
for malnutrition.

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