Home Health Line
03/26/2018
Take steps to ensure the small pool of home health patients you have who can or do bathe would be willing to serve as test subjects for your aides’ competency training.
03/26/2018
Thoroughly examine clinicians’ documentation — and ensure it’s detailed — when your agency cares for patients who have a diagnosis of hypertension and require an unusually long length of stay.
03/26/2018
Interim changes in physician orders and the plan of care don’t automatically restart the timeframe for physician review of the plan of care, CMS confirmed in a recent answer to HHL’s request for clarification.
03/26/2018
Remain calm and listen attentively during exit conferences, because there may be situations where the surveyor believes your agency made a mistake that should be cited — and your agency can prove there wasn’t a mistake at all.
03/26/2018
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) is once again recommending a 5% Medicare payment reduction for home health agencies.
03/26/2018
The recognition one Michigan hospice has achieved by organizing an annual dancing competition involving area stars has helped its census grow about 15% per year over the past five years and its likes on Facebook rise from about 500 to about 20,000.
03/26/2018
by: Strategic Healthcare Programs (SHP), Santa Barbara, Calif.
Among the more than 4 million episodes of care ending in 2017 for clients of Strategic Healthcare Programs (SHP), 6.6% involved patients with hypertension as a primary diagnosis.
03/23/2018
Click "Download file" to view details on where to find your area's local Agency on Aging; Center for Independent Living; Protection and Advocacy Agency; Aging and Disability Resource Center; and Quality Improvement Organization.
03/22/2018
A new transmittal from CMS details how rural add-on payments to home health agencies will be processed in 2018.
03/19/2018
Expect the final interpretive guidelines for the revised Home Health Conditions of Participation (CoPs) to include several changes regarding the comprehensive assessment when they’re released in about six to eight weeks, a CMS official told attendees of ElevatingHOME’s National Leadership Conference on March 9 in Washington D.C.

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