Home Health Line
06/24/2021
The Colorado Supreme Court has cleared up a longstanding unresolved question about when employers need to pay out accrued but unused vacation time.
06/24/2021
Scores for the five Home Health Care Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Provider Systems (HHCAHPS)-based measures have remained stable over time in HHVBP states versus non.
06/17/2021
Agencies will likely face new compliance hurdles under post-payment review as Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs) begin analyzing claims during the pandemic.
06/17/2021
As home health and hospice marketers are finally getting in to see referral partners after more than a year of remote marketing it’s a perfect time to reflect and prepare.
06/17/2021
CMS will pay more money to Medicare providers for administering the COVID-19 vaccine in the home, beginning with vaccines administered on June 8, 2021.
06/17/2021
Improving your patients’ dyspnea may be the perfect quality target now because there has been an increase in patients who experience shortness of breath due to COVID-19, and it can also impact home health payments through Care Compare, 5 Star Ratings and Home Health Value-Based Purchasing.
06/17/2021
Unless specifically documented by a provider, coders should not assume the presence of a secondary (acquired) hypercoagulable state in patients with atrial fibrillation, Coding Clinic states in the Q2 2021 Coding Clinic guidance update.
06/17/2021
This table shows the national averages for key outcomes for those agencies participating in the Home Health Value Based Purchasing demo versus those agencies that weren’t in performance year 2019.
06/10/2021
Updated technical assistance from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission clarifies how employers can require or encourage employees to take a COVID-19 vaccine, but attorneys advising employers point out how the document also contains cautions.
06/10/2021
There is more competition than ever when looking for skilled clinicians. And market changes driven by the pandemic mean you might need to shift your recruitment practices to account for the new normal.

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