Home Health Line
01/23/2025
Encourage your clinicians to communicate openly about patients’ disease process and end of life to improve survey scores, ease transitions and provide strong support for high-acuity patients and their caregivers.
01/23/2025
Focusing on joy in the workplace has the goal of improving daily life within an organization for everyone, but it also has a ripple effect. Many studies across various disciplines point to the benefits of a happy, engaged workforce.
01/23/2025
The latest hospice update at Care Compare shares collected data from 2022 and 2023 on nurse care minutes, visits in the last days of life and visits near death.
01/16/2025
Increase training around accurate scoring in the OASIS to excel at the new Discharge Function Score (DC Function), as some clinicians may not be as adept at scoring GG functional items.
01/16/2025
Make sure that you are using the latest forms and CMS guidance for patient disclosures with significant changes in 2025 requiring new procedures. 
01/16/2025
Partner with your agency’s medical equipment vendors to ensure that patients, staff and caregivers can use in-home devices like dialysis machines, infusion pumps and ventilators safely. Helping users understand how to program and troubleshoot devices and read relevant outputs not only increases patient and caregiver engagement but also allows your organization to get in front of issues that could lead to patient harm.
01/16/2025
While the majority of symptom codes should never be assigned as the primary diagnosis for a home health patient under PDGM, questionable encounter (QE) codes continue to occasionally make their way into the primary spot on claims.
01/16/2025
Achieving health equity requires active participation by health care leaders, and a major step forward is appointing a health equity officer (HEO) to keep your organization on track. This person is responsible for stewarding the crucial work of improving equity and health equity to ensure every patient receives the best possible health care.
01/16/2025
Syncope and dizziness were two new additions to the top questionable encounter (QE) codes in a one-month snapshot.
01/09/2025
Agencies that approach vaccine education by clearly explaining risks of flu and COVID-19 complications may be able to improve patient results and address a topic that has been a growing priority for CMS in recent years.

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