Home Health Line
12/14/2015
by: OCS HomeCare by National Research Corporation
The data below show the average readmission rates within 30 and 60 days of home health admission for the five diagnoses that trigger hospital readmission penalties.
12/07/2015
A recent federal district court decision in Savannah, Ga., is offering possible relief for home health agencies and hospices whose appeals of denied Medicare claims are buried in the mountain of pending requests for administrative law judge (ALJ) hearings.
12/07/2015
Activity displayed by recovery audit contractors (RACs) is about to pick up again. And when the new nationwide home health, hospice and durable medical equipment (DME) RAC emerges, those industries could see more attention from a RAC than ever before.
12/07/2015
Consider using RNs instead of LPNs as telehealth nurses at your agency, and you could experience improved quality outcomes.
12/07/2015
Medicare home health payments based on therapy levels and 60-day episodes of care could be replaced. In place of that would be a “reasonably accurate” prospective payment system (PPS) for all post-acute care that reimburses providers according to patient characteristics rather than the care setting and the amount of service provided.
12/07/2015
Hiring internationally is a legitimate option for some agencies where, for instance, there is a shortage of available clinicians.
12/07/2015
Only ICD-10 codes will be accepted by the HHCAHPS Survey Data Center for the primary and other diagnosis data variables for the fourth quarter of 2015 and beginning with the October 2015 sample month.
12/07/2015
by: Hospital & Healthcare Compensation Service, Oakland, N.J.
RNs nationwide earn about $9 more per hour than LPNs, according to the Hospital & Healthcare Compensation Service’s 2015-2016 HOMECARE Salary & Benefits Report. A typical RN earns $29.60 per hour, while an LPN earns $20.72 per hour.
11/23/2015
With value-based purchasing slated to get underway Jan. 1, quality and clinical managers will need to have a good sense of how their agencies’ achievement and improvement scores will be calculated for the 24 measures CMS is using to gauge performance in the demonstration.
11/23/2015
Make sure your agency’s therapists list short-term and long-term goals in objective, measurable terms on the patient’s plan of care, even if the episode is only supposed to last a brief period of time.

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