Home Health Line
10/05/2009
The uncertainty of health care reform has made it tough for HHAs to plan for the future.
10/05/2009
Correction: Hard copies of medical records can’t be kept at local drop sites in Louisiana because they lack Medicare approval and aren’t licensed by the state (HHL 9/28/09).
10/05/2009
Use this tool developed by Allscripts to determine the patient’s risk for falling and need for an initial therapy evaluation. It could help you avoid wasting valuable therapy resources on patients who don’t need therapy and ultimately improve your patient care and overall average case-mix weights.
10/05/2009
Refine the criteria you use to determine when patients should receive therapy evaluations and you could increase your agency’s average case-mix weight and provide better patient care.
09/28/2009
Many HHAs that want to open Medicare-certified branches are locked in a regulatory closet without a key.
09/28/2009
Though CMS won’t require agencies to report OASIS-C process measures, 74% of agencies plan to complete them, according to 169 respondents to HHL’s September OASIS-C survey.
09/28/2009
With just three months until agencies are required to use the OASIS-C assessment tool, consider these training strategies from home health experts:Start with the eight new process measures. Agencies can
09/28/2009
Limit any home health rate reductions caused by PPS rebasing to no more than 5% above the average of all standard business costs.
09/28/2009
Agencies soon may benefit from better-prepared home care patients, more referrals and improved communications with hospitals.
09/28/2009
An advanced therapy, designed to treat incontinence, has helped one agency earn up to nine new referral sources and five new patients per month.

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