Home Health Line
09/26/2016
Clinicians should examine the labels of their patients’ soaps to see whether they contain any of 19 different active ingredients that can no longer be marketed a year from now. If the soaps contain one or more of those ingredients, clinicians should educate the patient about why to consider buying products that don’t contain those ingredients.
09/26/2016
Review and revise the election statement your hospice provides patients to make clear the care you offer is palliative and that by signing the statement, the patient is waiving the right to receive certain Medicare services.
09/26/2016
Learn to properly code the flu and its related complications. If you don’t, you risk submitting inaccurate claims.
09/26/2016
by: HHL's Proposed CoPs Survey
About 19% of the 312 respondents to a question on HHL’s Proposed CoPs survey plan to spend $501 to $1,000 so their agency can train in the next year to prepare for the revised Home Health Conditions of Participation (CoPs).
09/23/2016
by: SHP
Families of hospice patients scored hospices the lowest in the measure that asks whether they were provided help with feelings of anxiety or sadness, according to the first year of Hospice CAHPS Survey data submitted by Strategic Healthcare Programs in Santa Barbara, Calif.
09/22/2016
In a complete reversal from previous guidance, coders can now assign I11.0 (Hypertensive heart disease with heart failure) for a patient with diagnoses of hypertension and heart failure, regardless of whether the physician has linked the hypertension to the heart failure.
09/19/2016
Agencies may need to rethink not only how they collect and analyze data for self-improvement, but also who is ultimately responsible for using that data to meet the Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement (QAPI) guidelines CMS sets.
09/19/2016
An average agency likely already has determined what to do in the event of a major storm. But a new emergency preparedness rule posted Sept. 8, 2016, on the Federal Register implies that as part of their plans, agencies should take an even bigger step — considering things such as pandemics or terror attacks.
09/19/2016
In response to home health industry concerns, CMS made several changes to its emergency preparedness rule posted Sept. 8.
09/19/2016
Agencies soon will have clearer guidance from CMS about maintenance therapy.

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