Home Health Line
07/07/2014
Have clinicians complete their electronic clinical documentation during or right after each visit. That step can protect you from ramped up state surveyor scrutiny on documentation timeliness.
07/07/2014
Reduce your risk for costly denials associated with the therapy reassessment requirement by conducting tests like the 30-second chair stand test.
 
07/07/2014
Agencies that have issues with timely documentation need to incorporate that requirement into their conditions of employment.
07/07/2014
Now is the time to go back to your ICD-10 transition team and do a post-mortem of all your preparation efforts to assess what your agency was able to accomplish, what it has yet to achieve, where your training was effective and what areas you may have neglected.
07/07/2014
Assign the same group of employees to visit assisted living facilities (ALFs) each time you have appointments there. The assurance that the same people from your agency will visit each time will make patients and employees more comfortable about letting your agency into the facility, and could generate more referrals.
07/07/2014
Nearly 20% of respondents to a recent HHL survey said that assisted living facilities were a top referral source.
07/07/2014
Your Medicare payments would drop by a fraction, but you’d gain considerable face-to-face relief under the proposed 2015 PPS rule. 
06/30/2014
Griswold International, a major franchisor of a private duty model it calls the “independent contractor system,” is the target of a fraud court suit that alleges the Philadelphia company bilked 11 of its franchise holders by falsely claiming its system wasn’t subject to the California Franchise Investment Law or to federal labor and tax regulations.
06/30/2014
Prepare your agency and work with your software vendor now to track potential rejections of OASIS data transmission when the new OASIS-C1/ICD-9 form takes effect Jan. 1, 2015.
06/30/2014
Review your agency’s policies, procedures and practices for preventing and controlling infection breaches to avoid fines in the thousands of dollars and other penalties.

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