Home Health Line
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.
10/11/2016
Conduct an internal audit immediately to determine if your agency’s employees are properly classified as exempt from new U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) overtime requirements. It’s vital to consider employees’ actual job duties — not their job descriptions.
10/10/2016
Fully train patients’ families about the restlessness and agitation their loved one may experience while receiving hospice care. Doing so will prepare families for stressful situations and could improve your hospice satisfaction scores.
10/10/2016
If your agency’s service area coincides with parts of the U.S. from Florida to Texas to Maryland and beyond — where Aedes species mosquitoes can thrive — focus on how well your clinicians educate patients about Zika virus dangers.
10/10/2016
More home health providers will be able to learn about the collection of patient data needed for uniform post-acute reimbursement standards required by the IMPACT Act of 2014, thanks to a second data collection round announced by CMS.
10/10/2016
Set a goal to decrease blood pressure numbers for hypertensive patients to 140/90, not 160/90. That’s one of the newer national guidelines that many agencies are failing to follow, says Cynthia Sun, lead cardiovascular project coordinator for the Home Health Quality Improvement (HHQI) Cardio Milestone program.
10/10/2016
Agencies should note that as of Sept. 15, the OASIS Q&A help desk at CMSOASISquestions@oasisanswers.com is no longer operational, CMS said in a response to a user inquiry.
10/10/2016
Although CMS announced in August that a correction related to hospice payment issues had been implemented, payments still aren’t processing correctly, according to the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC).

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