Home Health Line
10/17/2019
by: CMS
In its final rule about lessening health care providers' burden, CMS estimates providers will save money on an annual or biennial basis for several things, detailed below.
10/10/2019
The Review Choice Demonstration (RCD) will begin in Texas on Dec. 2, 2019 — a little less than a month before the Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM) takes effect.
10/10/2019
Draw from one agency’s pilot program and infection control best practices to achieve positive outcomes for patients with catheters.
 
10/10/2019
Strategically schedule visits to reduce the amount of time clinicians and aides spend driving. Doing so can have a positive impact on productivity.
10/10/2019
Eugene Scalia’s confirmation as the next secretary of the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) is expected to kick-start more rollbacks of Obama-era policies and usher in a more solidly pro-business era, according to attorneys who represent employers.
 
10/10/2019
Following HIPAA’s rules for disclosing information to a patient’s family members or friends can be tricky.
10/10/2019
Travel reimbursement was the benefit most commonly provided to caregivers by private duty agencies in 2018, according to the 2019 Home Care Benchmarking Study by Home Care Pulse in Rexburg, Idaho.
10/02/2019
After four years, a proposed rule and a deadline extension, CMS is finalizing conditions home health agencies must meet through the discharge planning process.
 
10/02/2019
Agencies once again will be able to use pseudo-patients to conduct aide skill competency assessments, much to the relief of industry experts and agencies alike.
10/02/2019
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has announced its new regulation outlining who is eligible to collect overtime pay, and it’s a rule expected to be far more palatable to employers than the previous attempt to raise the salary threshold for workers exempt from the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).

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