Home Health Line
02/06/2017
BAYADA Home Health Care is among the latest Medicare-certified home health agencies to be accused of violating wage-and-hour laws.
02/06/2017
With the new administration bringing expected change to health care, DecisionHealth is keeping track of the pertinent updates. Take note of these recent regulatory developments.
02/06/2017
Agencies have improved by more than 1% since last quarter on eight different measures on Home Health Compare. Each of those measures is included within value-based purchasing.
02/06/2017
by: CMS
G0158 (Written plan of care established and periodically reviewed) remained the most common standard-level deficiency in 2016, followed by G0159 (Plan of care covers diagnoses, required services, visits, etc.), data CMS provided HHL show.
02/06/2017
The following is a judge's ruling in Febuary 2017 in the Jimmo case.
02/03/2017
The HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has issued an alert warning the health care industry that it may be targeted by “denial of service” (DoS) attacks that will block clinicians, patients and others access to anything networked or connected to the internet.
01/31/2017
To lease or not to lease? That’s a question larger agencies — particularly those with rural clientele who are spread out over larger distances  — may want to consider.
01/30/2017

Work immediately to identify the best way for your agency to provide new written instructions for patients and caregivers. 

01/30/2017
Your agency might be among the 33% of home health agencies that see their star rating increase or decrease by half a point if CMS decides to shake up its quality of care star ratings in the coming months.
01/30/2017
by: CMS
The most common condition-level deficiencies involve skilled nursing services. G0168 was cited 98 times in 2016, 29 fewer times than in 2015.

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