Home Health Line
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.
05/01/2017
HHL recently asked a series of questions to Edo Banach, who on Feb. 22 became president and chief executive officer of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). Banach succeeds J. Donald Schumacher, who had headed the organization since 2002.
05/01/2017
by: HHL's Final CoPs Survey
More agencies are focusing their QAPI projects on improving on HHCAHPS results than anything else. That’s according to the 317 respondents to a question on HHL’s Final CoPs Survey. Agencies were provided a list of 15 potential QAPI projects and asked to select any they had undertaken in the past year or plan to undertake.
04/24/2017
The number of agencies that received five stars for quality of care has increased every quarter since the ratings were first released — and that trend continued when CMS released the latest ratings April 12.

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