Home Health Line
12/22/2014
Improve your patient satisfaction scores on Home Health Compare by creating action plans for patients that identify their overall goal for home health treatment — such as being able to go to the beauty parlor or to lose weight — and break that goal down into weekly steps that can be measured and tracked. 
 
12/22/2014
CMS has provided doctors with several examples to use within their documentation to justify a patient’s homebound status and need for skilled care.
 
12/22/2014
by: Trish Twombly
Your agency could lose more than $200 per episode for common home health diabetes scenarios such as the one below. 
 
12/22/2014
by: Financial Monitor
The data below show the national median figures for home health agencies’ indirect costs as a percentage of total costs and of revenue 
12/16/2014
CMS has provided doctors with several examples to use within their documentation to justify a patient’s homebound status and need for skilled care.
 
 
12/15/2014
New accountable care organization (ACO) proposals include home health provisions that would benefit some agencies.
 
12/15/2014
Hospices have proven to have a high level of success in six of seven CMS quality measures within the Hospice Item Set (HIS). But hospices continue to struggle with documenting comprehensive pain assessments.
 
12/15/2014
Limit your agency’s social media policy to a few key areas, such as barring the posting of a patient’s protected health information and preventing employees from discriminating online against coworkers, clients or even competitors.
 
12/15/2014
Medicare administrative contractor (MAC) Palmetto GBA recently offered agencies five areas to focus additional documentation request (ADR) responses to avoid denials. 
 
12/15/2014
Agencies wishing to improve productivity and reduce readmissions for CHF patients by incorporating a telehealth program should make certain a nurse with cardiovascular expertise helps manage it.
 

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