Home Health Line
09/27/2023
by: DecisionHealth Staff
The national average for “How often the home health team began their patients’ care in a timely manner” has slowly climbed to 96% over the past four quarters, according to data from Care Compare. The national average includes 12 months worth of OASIS assessments, with the most recent data from Oct. 1, 2021 to Sept. 30, 2022.
09/21/2023
A new report released by the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) found that 55% of Medicare home health claims reviewed included hospitalizations for falls with major injury that were not reported on patient assessments as required.
09/21/2023
Newly developed artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are expected to help agencies improve patient outcomes and compliance by doing things such as proposing goals and interventions for patients based on a scan of all records and determining whether more visits or other services are needed.
09/21/2023
UPIC activity was not suspended during the public health emergency, but agencies got a break with decreased medical review activity. This led to a false sense of security for many who may not be ready now and thus risk payment suspensions and possible paybacks due to findings in post-payment review.
09/21/2023
Find out what motivates your staff, and use that to create incentives that make them feel appreciated and want to stay with your company longer.
09/21/2023
More than 40% of home health and hospice agencies surveyed included some form of profit sharing as a benefit for clinicians in 2022.
09/13/2023
"As agencies are forced to shut down or scale back services in response to these cuts, many patients will lose access to home health services altogether," one administrator noted in comments to CMS.
09/13/2023
If finalized, the new rule would require a marriage and family therapist or a mental health counselor as options “depending on the preferences and needs of the patient,” according to CMS.
09/13/2023
If you’ve come to rely on eLearning as your primary method for training new hires, consider bringing back some in-person training, too. It could go a long way to improve turnover as employees start seeking these opportunities to ask questions, gain feedback and connect with colleagues.
09/13/2023
Using data from an urban home health organization, results found that home health clinicians spend less time with patients “for whom they document the language of judgment” — words like “adamant,” “apparently,” “claims” and “insists."

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