Home Health Line
10/29/2020
Recent studies serve as a reminder, especially during a global pandemic, for agencies to focus on ways to ensure that patient referrals get converted into periods of care.
10/29/2020
CMS clarified in the October OASIS Q&As that the waiver related to therapy and nursing evals allows for therapists to perform their discipline-specific evaluations and complete both the initial and SOC comprehensive assessments with OASIS as long as it is a case where both nursing and therapy are ordered.
10/29/2020
Now more than ever, it’s vital for agencies to take a look at their processes for assessing risk for hospitalization.
 
10/29/2020
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has made $20B more available for providers as part of phase 3 of the Provider Relief Fund (PRF).
10/29/2020
In the world of security, there is one question that never seems to go away: Are ransomware attacks automatically considered to be breaches?
10/29/2020
Q: We recently took a survey and many of our employees admitted to saving their passwords in a Word¨ document or a Notes¨ file on their phone.
10/29/2020
by: CMS
A CMS survey of Medicare beneficiaries, conducted this summer, found 21% of the 11,114 beneficiaries reported foregoing medical care not related to COVID-19.
10/22/2020
Agencies couldn’t have expected every twist and turn of the global pandemic, but leaders will be expected to update their emergency preparedness plans with the lessons learned from COVID-19, CMS states in a recent memo to surveyors.
10/22/2020
Pay attention to all of the OASIS items, not just those functional items that are worth points in PDGM. 
10/22/2020
Some Medicare Advantage Organizations (MAOs) will expand their benefits in 2021, including offering increased access to palliative care and integrated hospice care to enrollees.

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