Home Health Line
05/14/2018
Seek out ways to encourage and promote your agency’s top caregivers. Doing so will help with your agency’s retention rate — an ongoing struggle that’s worse now than ever before for the private duty industry.
05/14/2018
Home care agencies that offer caregivers the most money have turnover rates far lower than the national average, while agencies that pay the least have significant turnover rates.
05/14/2018
The Joint Commission no longer will require agencies to provide patients with a copy of a full written plan of care. Removal of language that “The organization provides the patient with a written individualized plan of care” is effective April 30.
05/14/2018
New data show ransomware remains a massive issue for health care providers. Is your agency taking the necessary precautions?
05/14/2018
In the near future, you’ll be able to capture a patient’s diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis in remission if the proposal to add these new codes to the ICD-10 code set is accepted.
05/14/2018
by: Home Care Pulse, Rexburg, Idaho
The median turnover rate in 2017 was 66.7% — the highest in the nine years that Home Care Pulse has released its annual benchmarking study.
05/14/2018
by: Annette Lee, owner of Provider Insights, Inc., in Des Moines, Iowa
Use this checklist to make sure your agency has all of the information needed when responding to additional documentation requests (ADRs).
05/03/2018
Some hospice industry experts were taken aback by CMS’ latest analysis of service intensity add-on (SIA) payment data. The analysis raises a red flag, because CMS contends hospices aren’t providing enough visits at the end of patients’ lives.
05/03/2018
Educate doctors about revenue opportunities involving TCM and CCM to get your foot in the door with potential referral sources.
05/03/2018
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. Here are their answers.

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