Home Health Line
01/16/2019
It’s now even more urgent for agencies to ensure clinicians are fully trained in using proper wording and listing all required components within individualized plans of care. And it’s also crucial for agencies to ensure their electronic medical records (EMR) system fully captures the necessary components.
01/16/2019
CMS’ review choice demonstration still hasn’t received Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approval, so there still isn’t an official start date for the demo.
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.

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