Home Health Line
04/02/2018
by: Arlene Maxim, a home health expert based in Troy, Mich.
Home health agencies should provide intake employees with a supplemental form they can use to gather additional information they’ll need as part of the patient rights portion of the revised Home Health Conditions of Participation (CoPs). This tool is necessary because many agencies struggle to compile key patient information in advance of the initial evaluation.
03/28/2018
National beta testing of data elements under the IMPACT Act is about to wrap up, and in the coming weeks participants will be surveyed about their experiences.
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
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