Home Health Line
04/25/2024
Champion work-life balance and a better work environment to keep your best clinicians as a new study suggests a sharp increase in burnout among RNs and a reduced number of nurses in home health and hospice even as other settings see growth.
04/25/2024
If your EMR flags medications as being at risk for interactions, it doesn’t mean that you should capture that situation in the OASIS drug regimen review items under M2001.
04/25/2024
Hospice providers have to stay prepared for patients who live past their six-month lifespan, but they also need to make sure they’re in compliance with CMS and Medicare Administrative Contractor (MAC) regulations, as any significant length of stay is a target for audits.
04/25/2024
Come October, coders could have a way to capture a post-acute encounter for sepsis aftercare if the proposed code Z51.A (Encounter for sepsis aftercare) is finalized later this year.
04/25/2024
The latest National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses, released in March, found a net increase of 400,000 licensed RNs since the last national survey in 2018. But the total number of RNs in home health and hospice declined.
04/18/2024
CMS’ new HHCAHPS fact sheet provides a standardized way for agencies to educate patients to look for the surveys and hopefully improve response rate.
04/18/2024
Coders feeling overburdened with additional duties and a lack of recognition for the extra work being done were noticeable trends for 2023, based on an analysis of DecisionHealth’s 2024 Home Health Coders’ Productivity Survey.
04/18/2024
CMS quietly updated model examples in March for the Notice of Election Statement (NOE) and the Patient Notification of Hospice Non-Covered Items, Services and Drugs, also known as the election statement addendum.
04/18/2024
As remote work becomes more common, what are the challenges and solutions for ensuring HIPAA compliance in home office environments?
04/18/2024
Most home health coders are tackling more than 10 charts a day, according to the results of DecisionHealth’s 2024 Home Health Coders’ Productivity Survey.

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