Home Health Line
10/24/2016
While ACOs may provide benefits in terms of referrals and communication with providers, agencies working with ACOs say you must be prepared for paperwork and red tape.
10/24/2016
by: Home Health Compare
There are 324 agencies nationwide that earned five stars in the ratings system involving quality of care, according to ratings released Oct 19. Meanwhile, 834 agencies received 4.5 stars.
10/24/2016
by: Home Health Compare
Agencies have continued to make strides on Home Health Compare measures included within value-based purchasing, according to the latest data released in October 2016.
10/20/2016
The efforts T.O.N.E. Home Health Services, Inc. took to successfully become a 5-star agency led accountable care organizations (ACO) to take notice. And the agency is reaping rewards from its relationships with ACOs In just a few months, its daily census went from 160 to 250 patients due to referrals and star recognition. 
10/17/2016
by: Diane Link
Modify your agency’s processes for care delivery — from the development of the care plan through patient discharge — immediately to prepare for the proposed Home Health Conditions of Participation (COPs).
10/17/2016
CMS trumpeted agencies’ successes when on Oct. 5 it released early results of Illinois’ pre-claim review — including the fact that only 34% of claims failed to pass muster. But industry experts contend the picture the federal Medicare agency paints doesn’t tell the whole story.
10/17/2016
The HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR), right on the heels of its recent clarification that providers need to treat ransomware attacks as potential breaches of HIPAA, has advised agencies and other entities to assess whether they’re capable of responding to a cybersecurity incident.
10/17/2016
Measure a wound from inside edge to inside edge to correctly document wound size and ensure that tunneling or undermining is correctly assessed even though incomplete healing may be present.
10/17/2016
CMS on Oct. 6 released a “privacy-protected public data set” known as the Hospice Utilization and Payment Public Use File (Hospice PUF).
10/17/2016
by: HHL’s Proposed CoPs Survey
QAPI is the new Condition of Participation (CoP) of greatest concern to agencies, according to the 310 respondents to a question on HHL’s Proposed CoPs Survey. And agencies ranked care planning as the third most troubling CoP change.

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