Home Health Line
03/07/2024
Vascular dementia should never be assigned as the primary diagnosis in home health or the terminal diagnosis in hospice coding.
03/07/2024
Responses to “How often patients got better at taking their drugs correctly by mouth” have improved, according to the latest data from CMS’ Care Compare, published in January.
02/29/2024
The number one area in home care ripe for technological advancements, such as AI, is documentation compliance. While AI technologies are still evolving, now is the time to start leveraging these tools.
02/29/2024
A temporary pause in The Program for Evaluating Payment Patterns Electronic Report (PEPPER) means that agencies will need to monitor their own billing compliance to identify high-risk areas and data outliers.
02/29/2024
Effectively managing employee expectations during periods of change can make or break an agency’s staff morale and ultimately retention rates.
02/29/2024
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the Department of Health and Human Services has released a cybersecurity toolkit that includes resources tailored for the health care and public health sector.
02/29/2024
With one year into OASIS-E, the new Transfer of Health (TOH) process measure scores are trending upward.
02/22/2024
Keep up with competency checks and make sure your in-home staff members are reminded frequently of hand-washing requirements. Surveyors note this continues to be a top deficiency.
02/22/2024
Agencies that create thorough and active succession plans will be set for success in emergencies or when the owner is ready to retire.
02/22/2024
CMS has responded by email to a question that was recently submitted regarding how to accurately score OASIS item M1860 (Ambulation/locomotion).

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