Home Health Line
05/28/2018
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.
05/28/2018
To ensure patients and their families are satisfied with care your hospice provides, train your employees to ask certain keywords during every visit.
05/28/2018
Hospices nationwide improved on all seven Hospice Item Set (HIS) measures in the latest update of Hospice Compare.
05/28/2018
New guidance for implementing electronic visit verification (EVV) as required under the 21st Century Cures Act may open the door for agencies to seek financial support for the cost of implementing such a system.
05/28/2018
by: CMS
Among the seven Hospice Item Set (HIS) measures posted on Hospice Compare, providers improved the most on “Hospice and palliative care pain assessment” during the May 2018 refresh.
05/16/2018
Adding GG0130 (Self-care) and GG0170 (Mobility) to the list of OASIS items that collect responses on activities of daily living (ADLs) will result in confusion for clinicians, data inaccuracy and potential red flags for auditors, commenters argue.
05/16/2018
Leaders from several agencies that earned 5 stars in quality of care in April 2018 contend that educating patients on their own self-care — and frontloading visits — is crucial to preventing those with pneumonia from being rehospitalized.
05/16/2018
The home health industry will once again receive regularly posted OASIS Q&A guidance from CMS — something that hasn’t occurred in nearly two years.
05/16/2018
CMS is considering adding to Hospice Compare a quality measure that reflects the rate of hospices’ live discharges that are followed by a hospitalization/emergency room visit/observation stay within seven days or are followed by death within 30 days.
05/16/2018
In-home support services and adult day care services are on the list of supplemental benefits to be allowed under Medicare Advantage plans in 2019, according to a recent CMS memo.

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