Home Health Line
08/25/2014
Communicate frequently with patients’ caregivers, especially for patients who live in hospitals and nursing homes, to improve scores on your Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) Hospice Survey, which becomes mandatory in April.
08/25/2014
One simple solution has helped an agency save more than $100,000 a year: Being able to fax electronic medical records to doctors through its computer system, without needing to print or mail anything.
08/25/2014
When Accredited Home Care and Accredited Home Health Services in southern California receives a call for private duty services, the agency’s operator will transfer the call to the agency’s “bat line,” a line with a distinct ring so employees know a potential private duty client is calling.
08/25/2014
Don’t wait to determine if patients’ Medicare Advantage plans require patients to provide copayments for home health services. You’re likely to lose a lot of money if you do.
08/25/2014
Hospices scored lower on “understanding the side effects of pain medication” than on any other hospice satisfaction factor in a 2013 study conducted by the RAND Corporation.
08/18/2014
A select group of 2,550 providers, including home health agencies, will participate in end-to-end ICD-10 testing starting in January. And all agencies will have the chance to submit claims with ICD-10 codes to their intermediaries to test whether those claims can be submitted, CMS announced July 31.
 
08/18/2014
Attention home health marketers: Jan. 1, 2015 will bring a new Medicare payment to physicians for managing the care of chronically ill beneficiaries. Educating physicians about the details could be just as much of an opportunity to promote your agency as Medicare’s long-established certification, recertification and care plan oversight payments, consultants say.
 
08/18/2014
Agencies may have to hire more therapists to comply with the therapy reassessment requirements in CMS’ 2015 proposed home health rule.
 
08/18/2014
Join forces with a private duty agency, a skilled nursing facility and a hospice to educate the faith-based community about your services and watch your number of referrals grow.
 
 
08/18/2014
Recent revisions to The Joint Commission’s National Patient Safety Goal (NPSG) on home oxygen safety mean your agency needs to revisit its policies and protocols or risk possible citations.
 
 

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