Home Health Line
06/23/2022
As this hurricane season builds, agencies in areas potentially affected by storms need to brush up on their emergency preparedness plans and ensure they are ready.
06/23/2022
Agencies might be tempted to find out what competitors are offering their staff, but these conversations can violate antitrust laws and are strictly prohibited.
06/23/2022
Hospice agencies should ensure education surrounding the relevance of medications to control pain, anxiety, agitation and other symptoms that impact patients’ quality of life.
06/23/2022
Industry experts and coders alike will be pleased to see the inclusion of 69 new codes to further identify the stage of severity, and behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD).
06/23/2022
Home care wages have changed over the last few years.
06/15/2022
Check your testing schedule and make sure your plan and procedures have been updated to reflect current emergency plan exercise requirements, as CMS released new guidance to surveyors.
06/15/2022
CMS has rescinded, at least temporarily, a change to policies around nurse practitioners (NP) and clinical nurse specialists (CNS). The proposal to require additional documentation when an NP or CNS was ordering or certifying home health services has been pulled from a recent update of the benefit policy manual.
06/15/2022
Find time to train clinicians on the new and revised OASIS-E social determinants of health (SDoH) — including health literacy, transportation, race and ethnicity — and your agency will benefit from better quality outcomes.
06/15/2022
Consider adding a medical director to your operations as a way to directly improve patient outcomes related to rehospitalization and medication management, while overcoming key compliance challenges and growing referrals.
06/15/2022
Do not assign E78.5 (Hyperlipidemia, unspecified) for a diagnosis of unspecified hyperlipidemia and hypercholesterolemia as the hypercholesterolemia identifies the specific blood lipid elevated, the Coding Clinic notes in its Q2 2022 guidance update, released June 3.

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