Home Health Line
01/24/2019
With less than a month of OASIS-D under their belts, many agencies are struggling with accuracy and productivity challenges associated with the assessment. But newly released CMS quarterly OASIS Q&As may help eliminate some confusion.
01/24/2019
More agencies plan to focus on improving the rate of acute care hospitalizations than any other quality of care star ratings measure in 2019.
01/24/2019
by: Joan Usher
Case conferences will take on increased importance when the Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM) launches on or after Jan. 1, 2020.
01/24/2019
Rural add-on payments have changed significantly for many agencies this year, with some providers receiving more money than before and others receiving far less.
01/24/2019
Use CMS’ new GG self-care and mobility activity decision tree to determine appropriate responses for those items when filling out OASIS-D.
01/24/2019
by: HHL’s 2019 Trends Survey
About 70% of agencies will work to improve performance on acute care hospitalization in 2019, according to 181 respondents to a question on HHL’s 2019 Trends Survey.
01/24/2019
by: CMS
Use this tool to help clinicians understand which response options are acceptable for GG0130 (Self-care) and GG0170 (Mobility).
01/24/2019
by: CMS
Use this decision tree to code the patient’s/resident’s performance on the assessment instrument. 

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