Home Health Line
04/02/2018
To ensure communication and consistency across assessments, have physical therapists cross-train nurses on setting discharge goals. This will help agencies prepare for OASIS-D items GG0170 (Mobility) and GG0130 (Self-care).
04/02/2018
To help comply with the new patient rights requirements in the revised Home Health Conditions of Participation (CoPs), agencies should train intake employees to ask key questions about patients and their representatives.
04/02/2018
For employees who drive on agency time, the issue of distracted driving isn’t just about the safety of the employee and others on the road — it’s also the about potential for employer liability.
04/02/2018
Ensure documentation from your agency’s clinicians goes beyond an electronic medical records (EMR) system’s check box charting.
04/02/2018
Rural agencies might have to wait a while before they get 3% add-on payments for claims submitted in early 2018.
04/02/2018
by: HHL’s 2018 Trends Survey
About 64% of agencies will spend more on quality improvement/assurance roles in 2018 than they had the prior year, according to the 163 respondents to a question on HHL’s 2018 Trends Survey.
04/02/2018
by: Arlene Maxim, a home health expert based in Troy, Mich.
Home health agencies should provide intake employees with a supplemental form they can use to gather additional information they’ll need as part of the patient rights portion of the revised Home Health Conditions of Participation (CoPs). This tool is necessary because many agencies struggle to compile key patient information in advance of the initial evaluation.

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