Home Health Line
10/19/2023
Having a full understanding of a patient’s vision status — and accurately capturing that through OASIS-E item B1000 (Vision) — can help you adapt a care plan to ensure both patient safety and positive outcomes.
10/19/2023
It is important that hospice coders accurately capture the terminal diagnosis and understand when it would be appropriate to change the diagnosis to ensure the patient is receiving the appropriate care and interventions.
10/19/2023
The national average was 84% for the HHCAHPS measure “How do patients rate the overall care from the home health agency?” according to Care Compare data captured from 984,076 surveys collected in 2022.
10/12/2023
As new codes are introduced for Parkinson’s disease, the diagnosis reaches the top five most commonly assigned primary diagnoses for the first half of 2023.
10/12/2023
OASIS-E item B0200 (Hearing) may get glossed over due to its seemingly straightforward nature but getting the correct answer to this question can go a long way to keep patients safe and determine homebound status.
10/12/2023
CMS will release two new Health Equity Confidential Feedback Reports to home health agencies, along with inpatient rehabilitation facilities, long-term care hospitals and skilled nursing facilities.
10/12/2023
Take employee complaints regarding pay disparities seriously after a recent $100,000 settlement that involved a home health provider accused of paying female post-acute care coordinators less than male coworkers for performing the same tasks.
10/12/2023
As Medicare Advantage (MA) plans participating in the Value-Based Insurance Design (VBID) model continue to add palliative care offerings, hospice providers weighing whether to partner with these plans should take a look at how competitors have been responding to MA opportunities.
10/12/2023
Here’s a list of the top 10 primary diagnoses for the first half of 2023.
10/05/2023
Agencies not only struggle to get positive HHCAHPS results, but some agencies struggle to get enough survey responses in the first place.

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