Home Health Line
05/08/2017
A QAPI Land board game. Guidance about 5-star ratings posted in agency bathroom stalls. The “Outcomes Owl.” These are just a few outside-the-box strategies one home health company used to dramatically increase its star ratings in quality. The efforts paid off, as four of its 34 locations have improved to 5 stars — including Mays Home Care’s location in Tulsa, Okla. That location improved several stars to become a 5-star agency when Home Health Compare was updated April 12.
05/08/2017
Most agencies that earned 5-star ratings in quality of care when Home Health Compare was updated April 12 have been standout agencies for a long time.
05/08/2017
It might seem like cause for long-term concern when you see hospices only are expected to receive a 1% payment increase in 2018 — compared to a 2.1% increase in 2017.
05/08/2017
by: Mays Home Care
This tool can be used to play QAPI Land, a game to help with quality improvement.
05/08/2017
Following a recent DecisionHealth webinar about how to comply with the Home Health Conditions of Participation (CoPs), agencies asked questions to attorney Robert Markette of Indianapolis-based Hall, Render, Killian, Heath & Lyman. Here are some of his answers.
05/04/2017
Home health agencies should use the following strategy to improve their star rating in quality.
05/01/2017
Improving on HHCAHPS results is the number one quality assurance performance improvement (QAPI) project agencies have made in the past year or plan to implement in the near future.
05/01/2017
By probing deeper into its quality data and using a strategy of peer auditing, one Washington-based agency was able to identify weaknesses and improve on all the value-based purchasing outcome measures.
05/01/2017
You’ll soon have 71 new codes to capture varying severities of non-pressure chronic ulcers if all the new codes proposed in the hospital inpatient PPS rule are accepted.
05/01/2017
The vast majority of home health agencies nationwide were unsuccessful in the first round of CMS’ probe-and-educate review and thus needed to participate in the review’s second round, which is ongoing. But there are several things agencies can do to achieve greater success this time.

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