Home Health Line
02/02/2024
Learn how one agency is starting to leverage new machine-learning algorithms to receive real-time alerts to track patient hospitalization risk, visit utilization, hospital admissions, discharges and more. Using these strategies the agency reduced its hospitalization rate by over 40% in less than one year.
02/02/2024
Make sure your documentation clearly justifies the patient’s need for skilled services, as medical necessity appears to be a top concern for auditors in the latest post-payment review.
02/02/2024
Agencies struggling with recruitment need to discard old recruitment methods and create new, transparent job listings that will attract the right staff. This can be done through story-telling recruitment.
02/02/2024
LUPA rates are up compared to 2019. Even though the pandemic ended last spring, lingering COVID-19 cases and other airborne infections are still affecting whether or not someone accepts or keeps home health services.
02/02/2024
The CDC posted updated FY2024 ICD-10-CM guidelines, including a sequencing update for sepsis due to postprocedural infection.
02/02/2024
Agencies increased salaries over the last year to attract and keep quality clinicians.

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