Home Health Line
10/03/2024
Use this chart to keep a record of patient satisfaction and concerns during a home health stay.
09/26/2024
Large health care data breaches may get national headlines, but CMS has made it clear that home health agencies will face increased scrutiny over their HIPAA compliance during surveys. Agencies that fail to routinely train staff on HIPAA compliance and implement policies and procedures to protect patient information in the home, office and everywhere in between could face steep fines or criminal penalties.
09/26/2024
When it comes to HIPAA compliance, it’s not enough to train staff once at orientation. Refreshing your training materials to reflect updated policies and repeating the necessary information will hammer home the importance of following privacy procedures.
09/26/2024
Take proactive steps to overcome hurdles in your Medicare Advantage programs, including addressing workflow issues and educating clinicians and patients about how MA impacts care in the home. As a growing share of the patient population, most agencies aren’t in a position where they can ignore the challenges with MA.
09/26/2024
Inspections from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration can come at any time. If an inspector comes by tomorrow, there’s always a chance you’ll be dinged for something big, even if you’ve escaped previous inspections unscathed.
09/26/2024
Query the provider for further clarification when documentation states “diabetes mellitus without complications” but the patient is also documented as having another condition that can be linked under the “with” convention.
09/26/2024
The new Severe Injury Report database from OSHA offers a deep dive into injury data for workers in home health and other workplaces.
09/19/2024
Agencies are focusing training more on the OASIS GG items as answers to these items will be used to calculate discharge function scores and Home Health Value-Based Purchasing bonuses in 2025.
09/19/2024
One of the challenges in scoring the GG items is when to score 07 or 10, as well as when to score the patient as fully dependent or independent. Here are some questions the clinician should consider before using these scores.
09/19/2024
Closely review the reasoning behind payment denials as several different CMS contractors have been basing decisions on Conditions of Participation that should be unrelated to requirements for payment.

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