Home Health Line
06/20/2018
It’s great if your agency’s performance improvement project (PIP) under QAPI is up and running. But it’s already time to consider what’s next.
06/20/2018
Don’t assume that if your agency suffers a small breach of patient protected health information (PHI) that any penalty the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) imposes will be proportional to the size of the breach.
06/20/2018
Make filing Medicare cost reports on time a priority. Doing so will help you avoid a hold on all payments.
06/20/2018
by: HHL’s 2018 Home Health Clinician Productivity Survey
As OASIS-D looms, many agencies are planning ahead on how to get staff up to speed. More than 22% of agencies say they will spend over eight hours training for OASIS-D in the coming months, according to the 139 respondents to a question on HHL’s 2018 Home Health Clinician Productivity Survey.
06/20/2018
by: Teresa Northcutt, senior consultant with Selman-Holman & Associates, LLC
Use this worksheet to help select your agency’s next performance improvement project (PIP) as part of QAPI.
 
06/13/2018
Bolster education and training around several key OASIS topic areas during home health aide orientation. Doing so will improve your agency’s overall OASIS accuracy.
06/13/2018
Step up efforts to educate clinicians about M2020 (Management of oral medications). The measure is poised to take on increased importance because CMS is considering adding it to home health quality of care star ratings.
06/13/2018
A total of 473 code changes will take effect on Oct. 1, including 279 new codes, 143 revised codes and 51 code deletions, according to the FY2019 ICD-10-CM update released June 11.
06/13/2018
Utilization of maintenance therapy in home health hasn’t significantly changed despite CMS launching a webpage last year to educate providers about it.
06/13/2018
Agencies recently asked a number of questions of industry experts J’non Griffin and Joan Usher. Griffin is president of Home Health Solutions, LLC in Carbon Hill, Ala., and Usher is president of JLU Health Record Systems of Pembroke, Mass.

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