Home Health Line
11/05/2020
As we cope with the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s important to take a few extra measures to protect your organization, your patients and your clients-as well as your data.
11/05/2020
Nearly one third of the 181 coders responding to a recent survey reported challenges in working with clinicians on necessary edits to an OASIS due to inconsistences or inaccuracies.
10/29/2020
Answers to the following questions were provided by Chris Apgar, president of Apgar & Associates, LLC, in Portland, Ore. This information does not constitute legal advice. Consult legal counsel for answers to specific privacy and security questions.
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.

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