Home Health Line
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.
08/15/2019
Hospices shouldn’t delay preparations for election statement modifications and a new election statement addendum requirement finalized in the 2020 hospice payment rule.
08/15/2019
Make obtaining staff buy-in a priority during the transition to the Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM). Failure to do so could jeopardize employee engagement levels and open the door to increased turnover and reduced productivity.
08/15/2019
Several key changes were made to coding guidance as part of the FY2020 ICD-10-CM Guidelines for Coding and Reporting, released Aug. 5.
08/15/2019
Following a recent DecisionHealth webinar about the final ICD-10 codes, agencies asked questions of industry expert J’non Griffin, president of Home Health Solutions, LLC in Carbon Hill, Ala. Here are some of her answers.
08/15/2019
It’s very tempting to respond when a patient bad mouths your agency online or to the press, but it’s not worth the risk.
08/15/2019
About 25% of agencies say turnover is the single biggest non-regulatory challenge to productivity in 2019, while 20% say patient acuity is having the biggest impact.
08/07/2019
As the Review Choice Demonstration (RCD) expands, agencies in Ohio and beyond should take note of best practices that have led to success in Illinois.
 

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