Home Health Line
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.
 
08/07/2019
An ounce of prevention can prevent a pound of trouble — and legal bills — when it comes to hiring and pre-employment testing practices.

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