Home Health Line
05/06/2020
While the new diagnosis code to capture COVID-19 has been in effect since April 1, coders have run into a few hiccups along the way as far as how it should be used.
05/06/2020
CMS addressed a question about whether agencies should discharge a patient when a home health patient is admitted for an inpatient stay.
05/06/2020
CMS released an updated memo on April 24 to state surveyors reiterating previous guidance about health care workers entering nursing homes. 
05/06/2020
The closures of schools and daycares across the nation forced some agencies to get creative and look into implementing childcare policies and modifying employee leave and work-from-home policies.
05/06/2020
HealthLeaders Media, a sister organization to DecisionHealth talked with disaster response expert Regardt Ferreira, PhD, to get his perspective on the mental health impact on health care workers during the pandemic.
05/06/2020
by: CDC
The data below show the underlying medical conditions for 305 adult patients hospitalized with COVID-19 at eight Georgia hospitals in March 2020, according to a recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report.
04/29/2020
CMS surveyors are starting to survey home health agencies for infection-control issues.
04/29/2020
Some home care providers are facing issues with employees not coming to work due to COVID-19, even though patients continue to need care.
04/29/2020
The projected average salary for a home health coder was on the rise in 2019 increasing 3.9% from 2018 to 2019. That’s nearly double the 1.9% that it increased the previous year.
04/29/2020
As employers begin looking beyond the immediate effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and start thinking of bringing people back to work, they will be wise to realize the new virus means permanent changes related to their obligation to provide a safe workplace.

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