Home Health Line
12/22/2023
With a growing number of agencies accepting Medicare Advantage (MA) patients year-over-year, it’s important to know where to focus to get the biggest bang for the buck with MA plans.
12/22/2023
One way to prepare for bonuses in HHVBP is to look at key OASIS items such as M1033 and the SDoH items as a tool to craft stronger plans of care complete with interventions that will keep patients safe at home and out of the hospital. 
12/22/2023
Recruitment and retention is expected to have the biggest impact on agency operations in 2024.
12/22/2023
With value-based payment adjustments largely dependent on hospitalization scores, it’s not surprising that is the top measure agencies said they’re focused on improving.
12/22/2023
Agencies are looking at recruitment and retention, staff education and technology as priorities in 2024.
12/14/2023
It’s important to know if patients are vaccinated for the flu, but the most recent update on Care Compare shows a decline in how often agencies are determining a patient’s flu vaccine status. 
12/14/2023
Take another look at your processes around fall prevention and fall reporting as the latest OIG report targeting home health will put new scrutiny on agency efforts to prevent major falls in 2024 and beyond. 
12/14/2023
One of the most common mistakes during a quality review with M1870 is mistaking “meal set-up” as “meal prep."
12/14/2023
Agencies that are ignoring these resources risk learning in late 2024 that their payments for 2025 home health services have been cut by as much as 5% because of poor performance compared to outcomes nationally.
12/14/2023
When replacing the primary diagnosis in the second 30-day period, make sure you’re accurately disposing the previous primary diagnosis — whether it remains an issue for the patient and included in care going forward or it’s resolved altogether.

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