Home Health Line
06/06/2016
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) guidance about the expected threat to health care workers this summer from mosquitoes carrying the Zika virus is good reason for agencies and hospices to review their compliance with OSHA’s blood-borne pathogens standards, the U.S. Department of Labor suggests.
06/06/2016
Examine your processes when it comes to tracking physicians’ orders — and whether technology can help. Doing so as part of a deeper examination into its back office helped one agency achieve significant savings.
06/06/2016
Recording intake calls and using them as training tools can increase an agency’s lead conversion rates.
06/06/2016
Agencies must make sure to secure patient health information acquired through intake calls.
06/06/2016
A group of 116 House members have signed on to a letter asking CMS to reconsider its proposed demonstration for prior authorization for home health services.
06/06/2016
by: DecisionHealth’s Home Health Coders’ Productivity Survey
About 40% of coders chart six to 10 charts a day, according to the 158 respondents to a question on DecisionHealth’s Home Health Coders’ Productivity Survey. Respondents were told that if they have more than one job, they should consider only their full-time job when answering this question.
06/01/2016
The costs clients pay for homemaker and home care aide services have inched up again, and rural states appear to be the hardest hit, the 2016 Genworth Cost of Care study shows.
05/30/2016
Partners HealthCare at Home isn’t waiting to correct gaps in its operating protocols that could lead to low scores under the formula CMS is using to reshape Medicare reimbursement in its nine-state pilot test of value-based purchasing.
05/30/2016
CMS recently provided 2015 benchmarks and achievement thresholds to home health agencies within the nine states where the value-based purchasing project exists.
05/30/2016
In the wake of a U.S. Department of Labor final rule released May 18, Medicare home health agencies, hospices and private duty agencies must examine exempt employees’ current salaries. They’ll need to figure out how many people on their workforce will be below the salary threshold when the rule takes effect Dec. 1.

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