Home Health Line
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.
10/22/2020
Answers to these questions were provided by Joe Osentoski, BAS, RN-BC, consultant, in Madison Heights, Mich.
10/22/2020
Health care organizations in the U.S. have experienced a significant increase in ransomware attacks, and the trend has continued upward during the pandemic.
10/22/2020
Care planning, coordination and quality of care ranked as the top survey concerns among the 247 total respondents to a survey conducted by HHL’s sister organization the Association of Home Care Coding & Compliance (AHCC). 
10/14/2020
Many of the outside audits and reviews on hold through the early months of the pandemic are expected to resume this fall, with a new level of intensity.
 

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