Free Home Health Line Tool
11/03/2014
by: Athens Regional Home Health

The following Ebola decision tree is designed to use for home health intake and clinical staff to help them assess risk and protect staff and patients. It was created by Pamela Hall, executive director of Athens Regional Home Health, a hospital-based agency in Athens, Georgia. The agency regularly updates this decision tree as guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other sources changes.

 
10/08/2014
by: Blessed Trinity Home Health & Hospice
Use this free tool to conduct a heart failure telephonic assessment.
10/08/2014
by: Johns Hopkins
View Johns Hopkins Home Care Group’s policy on mandatory influenza vaccinations. 
09/08/2014
by: CMS
The following is a sample of an initial cover letter to be sent for the CAHPS hospice survey.
 
09/04/2014
by: CMS
Use this form to authorize a survey vendor to submit data on your hospice's behalf.
09/02/2014
by: CMS
Several companies have met the hospice CAHPS survey requirements to be conditionally approved to administer the survey.
08/25/2014
StrategicHealthSoluitions recently mailed the following letter to a home health agency when issuing denials due to face-to-face documentation issues.
07/01/2014
CMS released its Home Health Prospective Payment System (HH PPS) for calendar year 2015 on July 1. 
06/25/2014
View the average number of clinical case-mix points captured by agencies on OASIS items in 2011, 2012 and 2013.
06/19/2014
This document lists changes CMS has made to the OAISS-C1 to create its’ OASIS-C1/ICD-9 version and states the reasons for changing coding items to allow for ICD-9 codes.
 

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