Home Health Line
05/22/2025
The ongoing trend of coders taking on additional job responsibilities besides strictly coding charts continues to grow based upon an analysis of the 2025 Home Health Coding/QA Productivity Survey.
05/22/2025
Find straightforward ways to encourage your patients and caregivers to post a review of your agency’s services online. Welcoming — and responding — to patient and family feedback online could draw in new patients and clients while building trust and strengthening relationships even after discharge.
05/22/2025
A good starting point for improving workplace violence prevention programs is to have an intuitive, robust system in place for reporting incidents. Every health care worker needs to understand what workplace violence is and how to address it.
05/22/2025
More coders are juggling coding, OASIS and plan of care reviews — and they are expected to do more year-over-year.
05/15/2025
Changes in care delivery always require input from frontline clinicians, showing you value their opinion. That is even more important with new technology that might require flexibility and understanding as issues in the rollout get addressed.
05/15/2025
The OASIS item M1810 for upper body dressing factors into PDGM payments, yet it's often answered incorrectly due to confusion between this item and GG0130F.
05/15/2025
Prepare your care team for situations in which they’ll be collaborating with more than one caregiver who provides support for a patient with dementia. Agencies that communicate openly and provide centralized resources for these caregivers could reduce caregiver frustration, boost outcomes and improve efficiency among in-home staff.
05/15/2025
A system error following a recent CMS Change Request is causing certain home health claims to be erroneously returned to providers, says Mary Carr, vice president of regulatory affairs at The Alliance for Care at Home.
05/15/2025
Introduce game-like elements into your rewards programs to motivate employees and get better results from professional development efforts. Recognizing top performers and participants also could increase staff productivity, collaboration and goal setting. 
05/15/2025
A review of home health documentation is showing clinicians have been struggling to document when a patient has a dementia diagnosis.

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