Home Health Line
09/02/2020
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) clarified the threshold for the amount of relief funds that would require providers to deliver additional data elements to keep their money after August 17, 2020.
09/02/2020
 
It is not enough for agencies to just talk about promoting diversity and inclusion within the workplace.
09/02/2020
Helping patients with diabetes manage their care and avoid preventable readmissions is challenging under normal circumstances, but even more so during the COVID-19 pandemic.
09/02/2020
Strategic Healthcare Programs (SHP) shared data on the top 10 questionable encounter (QE) diagnosis codes pulled from current Medicare OASIS records for the first three weeks of August.
08/26/2020
Inconsistency and lack of timely processing top the Review Choice Demonstration (RCD) challenges agencies have faced so far.
08/26/2020
CMS released the home health grouper Aug. 7 containing acceptable primary diagnoses and the high comorbidity and low comorbidity adjustments for the new FY2021 codes — set to take effect Oct. 1.
08/26/2020
Patients coming to home care after long, intensive hospital stays as a result of COVID-19 require intensive physical therapy, but the key is to balance physical visits with virtual visits while also taking into account the patient’s tolerance.
08/26/2020
A new bill introduced to Congress August 4, 2020, would extend the five-day maximum to 15 days for respite care and would allow it in the home when a caregiver can’t provide care resulting from illness or isolation.
08/26/2020
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is taking steps to clarify how the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) affects opioid use among employees.
08/26/2020
The National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) stressed the importance of collecting, coding, analyzing and reporting both industry and occupation data in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) case reports to form better strategies for reducing the impact of the pandemic on workers.

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