Home Health Line
09/04/2019
Querying the physician for further information will be essential to ensuring you have the specificity needed for appropriate coding under the Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM).
09/04/2019
Following a recent DecisionHealth webinar about creating a concurrent review process and improving clinical documentation ahead of the Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM), agencies asked questions of Sharon Litwin, founder and senior managing partner at 5 Star Consultants in Camdenton, Mo. Below are some of her answers.
09/04/2019
About 33% of agencies say complying with the revised CoPs is the regulatory change that has had the biggest impact on agency productivity over the past year.
09/04/2019
Use the following examples of a good query and a poor-quality query as references when creating a query. Always follow best practice when creating these forms.
09/04/2019
Use this form to keep track of the patient goal and five components that must be provided to the patient in writing throughout the course of care in order to comply with the revised Home Health Conditions of Participation (CoPs).
08/22/2019
Agencies should take steps now to assess and speed up their Requests for Anticipated Payment (RAP) processes and prepare to modify them in light of CMS’ proposal to eliminate RAPs and introduce a notice of admission requirement.
08/22/2019
Building agency culture and processes around patient experience helped one home health agency score well above the national average on HHCAHPS measures and simultaneously see a significant increase in friends and family referrals.
08/22/2019
A death in the workplace can feel like a death in the family. Whether it’s sudden or expected, the death of an employee can be traumatic for staff and management. The following tips may help you navigate the needs of your company and your employees during a difficult time.
08/22/2019
Agencies usually know that they can share limited information with a patient’s friends and family during an emergency. But they often trip up when it comes to sharing information in nonemergency situations, either sharing too much information or withholding it unnecessarily.
08/22/2019
The percentage of patients who would definitely recommend the home health agency to family and friends and the percentage of patients who gave their home heath agency a rating of 9 or 10 on a scale from 0 (lowest) to 10 (highest) saw a slight uptick in the July 2019 release of Home Health Compare.

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