Home Health Line
06/23/2014
As your clinicians get better at stating functional dependence of patients in the OASIS, make sure they follow through with providing the documentation to back up those answers.
06/23/2014
Create a company-specific YouTube channel for your agency as an easy way to gain even more exposure.
06/23/2014
More well-run, independent home health agencies are being sold. But that doesn’t necessarily mean buyers want to pay a ton for them.
06/23/2014
Griswold International, a major private duty franchisor that operates an “independent contractor system,” is the target of a fraud suit that alleges the Philadelphia company bilked 11 of its franchise holders by claiming its system wasn’t subject to the California Franchise Investment Law or to federal labor and tax regulations.
06/23/2014
Case-mix points from functional items have been on the rise since 2010, making it more important than ever for agencies to ramp up training and documentation to support the services provided. The data includes more than 2.5 million episodes for all of 2013.
06/16/2014
Quality managers with the title of education manager earned on average $84,000, the highest paying salary of those surveyed in DecisionHealth’s 2014 QI/QA salary survey. 
06/16/2014
CMS is holding off on a project to draft data points to be incorporated into electronic health record (EHR) systems as prompts for doctors on face-to-face documentation.
06/16/2014
Three home care associations filed a lawsuit June 6 against the Department of Labor (DOL) for violating federal law when it changed the companion care exemption of the Fair Labor Standards Act.
06/16/2014
Record intake phone calls or conduct scripted calls to monitor your intake department’s conversations with referral sources. Doing so will inform future training and increase the number of calls you receive that turn into sales.
06/16/2014
Many quality managers say that while they are often satisfied with their jobs, the duties they are being assigned seem to continue to grow as salaries remain relatively stagnant.

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