Home Health Line
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.
12/14/2023
The percentage of Medicare Fee-for-Service beneficiaries — aged 65 and up — who received a flu vaccine at the start of the season is down significantly from highs seen during the pandemic.
12/07/2023
Anticipate your patient’s needs to see improvement on the new publicly reported preventable hospitalizations measure on Care Compare. 
12/07/2023
As agencies trim budgets to prepare for upcoming payment cuts, some are turning to automation tools to save time and money during the onboarding and recruitment process.
12/07/2023
It can be challenging to settle on a primary diagnosis when a patient has more than one diagnosis that could qualify as primary under PDGM.
12/07/2023
It can be tempting to hire just anybody when your agency is understaffed, but rethinking your interactions with new staff from recruiting through hiring can make a dramatic difference in retention. 
12/07/2023
Only 9% of agencies scored “better than the national rate” for the measure Home Health Within-Stay Potentially Preventable Hospitalization
(PPH).
11/30/2023
As referral rejections reach a new high, it’s important to continue to track referrals, response time, acceptance and denial rates and handle any rejections gently to avoid losing future business. 
11/30/2023
New and updated guidance from the OASIS quarterly Q&As is making its way into the 2024 OASIS-E Guidance Manual, giving clinicians all of the guidance included in the quarterly updates in one place.

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