Home Health Line
05/16/2018
Adding GG0130 (Self-care) and GG0170 (Mobility) to the list of OASIS items that collect responses on activities of daily living (ADLs) will result in confusion for clinicians, data inaccuracy and potential red flags for auditors, commenters argue.
05/16/2018
Leaders from several agencies that earned 5 stars in quality of care in April 2018 contend that educating patients on their own self-care — and frontloading visits — is crucial to preventing those with pneumonia from being rehospitalized.
05/16/2018
The home health industry will once again receive regularly posted OASIS Q&A guidance from CMS — something that hasn’t occurred in nearly two years.
05/16/2018
CMS is considering adding to Hospice Compare a quality measure that reflects the rate of hospices’ live discharges that are followed by a hospitalization/emergency room visit/observation stay within seven days or are followed by death within 30 days.
05/16/2018
In-home support services and adult day care services are on the list of supplemental benefits to be allowed under Medicare Advantage plans in 2019, according to a recent CMS memo.
05/16/2018
by: Minneapolis-based ABILITY Network
About 19.3% of patients with a primary diagnosis of pneumonia were rehospitalized within 30 days of hospital discharge in 2017, according to an analysis by Minneapolis-based ABILITY Network. That’s an improvement of 0.6% from 2014.

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