Home Health Line
04/14/2008
Create and sell a cookbook with recipes from patients and their families to boost referrals and awareness about your hospice.
04/14/2008
OASIS revisions expected late 2009, CMS says. The new proposed OASIS data set, OASIS-C, which includes the addition of 30 new process measures, won’t be finalized until late 2009, at
04/14/2008
Just three months after CMS shifted the financial rewards for agencies predicting 10 or more therapy visits, the industry has responded with a decrease in the number of cases that
04/07/2008
The PPS changes, on average, haven’t produced the claims payments anticipated by the 1,400 or so home health agencies in the Strategic Healthcare Programs database – at least not in the
04/07/2008
If the government succeeds in its current efforts to learn which setting is most appropriate for Medicare patients after an acute-care hospital stay, home health could be a winner, thanks
04/07/2008
HHAs soon could see a change in their scores for 11 OBQI outcomes, because CMS plans to risk adjust them.
04/07/2008
Your nurses can answer several functional OASIS questions by having patients perform one task, such as getting to the bathroom and on and off the toilet.
04/07/2008
The March 2008 Home Health Compare update shows progress in ambulation/locomotion and bathing scores. Each saw a one percentage-point increase from December 2007 scores, according to Home Health Compare. Scores
03/31/2008
Federally mandated background checks based partly on state and national fingerprint searches could be in the future for home health agencies when hiring clinicians and aides.
03/31/2008
As home health agencies struggle over the perennial question of how to pay their nurses – hourly, salary or per-visit – some have found that a mix of these methods may be

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