Home Health Line
06/20/2018
With the added time home health experts anticipate OASIS-D will take and the amount of time many agencies expect to spend training, it’s a good idea to start preparing for the new version of the assessment now.
06/20/2018
CMS’ estimate for the money agencies will spend and resources they’ll use to participate in the review choice demonstration is far lower than what it realistically will take, several industry experts contend.
06/20/2018
It’s great if your agency’s performance improvement project (PIP) under QAPI is up and running. But it’s already time to consider what’s next.
06/20/2018
Don’t assume that if your agency suffers a small breach of patient protected health information (PHI) that any penalty the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) imposes will be proportional to the size of the breach.
06/20/2018
Make filing Medicare cost reports on time a priority. Doing so will help you avoid a hold on all payments.
06/20/2018
by: HHL’s 2018 Home Health Clinician Productivity Survey
As OASIS-D looms, many agencies are planning ahead on how to get staff up to speed. More than 22% of agencies say they will spend over eight hours training for OASIS-D in the coming months, according to the 139 respondents to a question on HHL’s 2018 Home Health Clinician Productivity Survey.
06/20/2018
by: Teresa Northcutt, senior consultant with Selman-Holman & Associates, LLC
Use this worksheet to help select your agency’s next performance improvement project (PIP) as part of QAPI.
 

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