Home Health Line
04/10/2017
by: ABILITY Network
The average number of clinical case-mix points in 2016 was 4.04 — that’s relatively stable after it plummeted from 8.27 in 2014 to 4.17 in 2015, according to data from Seattle-based ABILITY Network.
04/10/2017
View the following pain domain questions examined during Alpha 1.
04/07/2017
Use this tool as a sheet to help clinicians who struggle with converting feet into inches.
04/07/2017
OASIS-C2 is the regulatory change that has had the biggest impact on agencies’ productivity in 2017, the results of a new HHL survey show.
04/03/2017
CMS is in the midst of two separate, large-scale payment issues involving the hospice industry — issues that began after CMS restructured the way it pays hospices.
04/03/2017
by: Jennifer Sandel, co-owner of Home Care Services Solutions, Battle Creek, Mich.
Use the following tool to track each step of the OASIS assessment’s submission process and stay within the 30-day deadline.
04/03/2017
With a new requirement that took effect April 1, untimely OASIS submissions could put agencies’ payment at risk for the first time.
04/03/2017
Agencies are hard at work getting performance improvement projects in place in preparation for the upcoming Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement (QAPI) requirement as part of the revised Home Health Conditions of Participation (CoPs).
04/03/2017
Don’t miss a key compliance component for Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age and disability by any health care program or activity.
04/03/2017
As your agency works to prepare for the revised Home Health Conditions of Participation (CoPs), which take effect July 13, it should do the following:

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