Home Health Line
08/08/2024
CMS finalized a 2.9% payment rate update for fiscal year 2025, but the impact of the rate will differ depending on the hospice wage index of the local Census designated area.
08/01/2024
Reevaluate your agency’s emergency preparedness plans and remind clinicians to review the procedures with patients and caregivers ahead of a potential weather event to avoid costly survey citations.
08/01/2024
When answering M2001 (Drug Regimen Review), it’s important to understand the OASIS guidelines for a clinically significant medication issue and a potential clinically significant medication issue.
08/01/2024
At the beginning and end of every visit to Assisted Living facilities (ALFs), ask clinicians to communicate with the wellness directors, letting them know they are going to see the patient and the status of the visit.
08/01/2024
In this interview, Leslie Pelton, vice president at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), tells us more about the Age-Friendly System-Wide Spread Collaborative, an 18-month project where 30 U.S. health systems will try to spread the adoption of four evidence-based elements of high-quality care, known as the 4Ms.
08/01/2024
Agencies are struggling with a variety of productivity challenges, but the challenges around staffing turnover tops the list for productivity headaches.
07/25/2024
Clinical judgement should be used to determine if a patient is able to respond for each of the Social Determinant of Health (SDoH) OASIS items when patients are confused.
07/25/2024
In the July CMS OASIS Q&As, a questioner asked how to stage a pressure ulcer on the OASIS when the deepest anatomic soft tissue damage is unknown.
07/25/2024
Focusing only on a number of visits can inadvertently set up the need to just perform “visits” to meet productivity goals. That can lead to clinicians providing visits that are not driving value for the patient outcomes and adding unnecessary costs to the episode.
07/25/2024
Agencies that implement mental health interventions for staff could see diminished stress among clinicians and aides, renewed employee focus and higher-quality care, experts say.

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