Home Health Line
01/16/2019
Coding will play a key role in the Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM) — making it all the more important to ensure each code and associated clinical group is appropriate, industry experts contend.
01/16/2019
Recently released guidance from the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) serves as a valuable reminder to agencies to track all employee hours worked.
01/16/2019
by: HHL’s 2019 Trends Survey
About 22% of agencies will spend considerably less money on therapy staff in 2019, while only about 17% of staff will spend considerably more.
01/09/2019
Train intake to gather more information about patients referred to home health with muscle weakness, abnormalities of gait, osteoarthritis and/or dysphagia.
01/09/2019
Ensure clinicians fully understand how to fill out the OASIS item involving grooming.
01/09/2019
Ensure home health aides at your agency understand various factors that could contribute to a fall — and that aides report those risks. When aides know what to look for, risk factors become easy to spot.
01/09/2019
The cost for providing care to private duty clients has once again increased, according to the 2018 Genworth Cost of Care Study.
01/09/2019
by: Santa Barbara, Calif.-based Strategic Healthcare Programs
Muscle weakness (generalized) was by far the most commonly used primary diagnosis that would be deemed questionable under the Patient-Driven Groupings Model, according to 2017 data from Santa Barbara, Calif.-based Strategic Healthcare Programs.
01/02/2019
By having case conferences to discuss specific patients, agencies help ensure compliance with the revised Home Health Conditions of Participation (CoPs).
01/02/2019
CMS released the final OASIS-D guidance manual less than two weeks before the new version of the assessment took effect. Not all expected changes were outlined in the final version.

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