Home Health Line
03/06/2025
Evaluate how new requirements under the Hospice Outcomes and Patient Evaluation (HOPE) tool will impact your staff’s workflow, as agencies that are unprepared for the changes could face inefficiencies, care delays and payment reductions.
03/06/2025
Discharge Function Score is not a top priority for quality improvement. It ranked fourth behind preventable hospitalizations, medication management and patient satisfaction.
02/27/2025
Educating staff on how to use detailed, narrative-form documentation could allow your agency to prevent gaps in care and compliance that may lead to reduced payments or catch surveyors’ attention.
02/27/2025
Agencies should be taking advantage of the voluntary period of submission of Start of Care (SOC) OASIS for all-payors in order to prepare for the changes coming July 1.
02/27/2025
Agencies must develop and fully implement Fraud and Abuse Compliance policies to foster a culture of compliance within their companies.
02/27/2025
Providers need to build processes to make sure patient records are provided within the required time frames and without delays.
02/27/2025
Home health agencies are struggling with standards around the care plan development and execution.
02/20/2025
The SFP targets hospices struggling with quality performance measures, survey citations or substantiated complaints. Selected providers would have received additional survey oversight, with the expectation that they improve or face potential removal from the Medicare program.
02/20/2025
Train clinicians to keep an eye out for any signs or symptoms of urinary tract infection (UTI) among patients — even if the documentation does not specifically state the diagnosis — as this is a top diagnosis that sends patients back to the hospital.
02/20/2025
With the current surge in influenza cases, agencies should ensure that they are doing all they can to protect not only their patients, but their staff as well.

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