Home Health Line
06/12/2017
Learn how the documentation coders use to assign ICD-10 codes could undergo a stringent QA and improvement process before the record ever reaches their desks.
06/12/2017
A new appendix in the State Operations Manual contains interpretive guidelines and survey procedures for the emergency preparedness final rule, which takes effect Nov. 15.
06/12/2017
by: CMS
The ICD-10 code for Alzheimer’s disease, unspecified was used nearly 163,000 times in the 2016 fiscal year, making this the most common diagnosis. The equivalent ICD-9 code for Alzheimer’s — 331.0 — only was used as the principal diagnosis 79,626 times.
06/09/2017
The Joint Commission calls a recent CMS proposal to require accrediting organizations to post survey results online a threat to patient care that will have a “chilling effect” on the organizations’ efforts to raise standards and ultimately create a “race to the bottom on quality.”
06/05/2017
Though ransomware virus WannaCry didn’t devastate U.S. health care providers in the same way it did for providers in 150 countries worldwide, it should serve as yet another wake-up call about the need to examine cybersecurity and educate employees about email threats.
06/05/2017
Performing well on surveys may take on even greater importance if CMS follows through with a proposal to have accrediting organizations such as The Joint Commission post specifics of survey results online.
06/05/2017
For the past two years, Good Samaritan Home Health in Sioux Falls, S.D., has used tablets in patients’ homes — saving clinicians 20 to 29 minutes per visit on average.
06/05/2017
Identifying compassion fatigue in yourself and in staff — and working to address the issue — can help your agency retain employees longer and achieve better home health or private duty outcomes.
06/05/2017
We upgraded your prior listserv to the new Home Care Forum! The new forum allows you to engage in much of the same way as your old listserv but with added features such as a comprehensive search, ability to have threaded and archived conversations with search functionality separated into different categories and the ability to track notifications from the site to your own inbox to continue conversations for more privacy.
06/05/2017
by: The Joint Commission
The standard involving staff competence to perform responsibilities was one of the most challenging requirements for home care agencies in 2016, according to recently posted information from The Joint Commission. 

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