Home Health Line
05/20/2022
Employers need to pull out all the stops to attract top talent and retain their employees and this includes prioritizing new and sought-after benefits.
05/20/2022
Take a look at how financial incentives that were part of the Home Health Value Based Purchasing pilot project impacted outcomes, performance measures and Medicare spending.
05/20/2022
Use this face-to-face encounter tool to ensure that your documentation is in order and avoid auditor scrutiny. The tool was created by Joe Osentoski, senior consultant for Gateway Home Health Coding and Consulting in Madison Heights, Mich.
05/12/2022
Agencies should ensure clinicians are familiar with the high-risk drug classes ahead of OASIS-E implementation and the addition of N0415 (High-risk drug classes: use and indication).
05/12/2022
One of the publicly reported quality outcome measures that improved slightly in April’s quarterly refresh of home health data on Care Compare was “How often patients’ breathing improved.”
05/12/2022
As government audits start to pick back up after a hiatus earlier in the pandemic, agencies should beware of one specific type of audit that can be financially devastating to an agency: a UPIC audit.
05/12/2022
The data show the latest national averages for quality of care measures, released in April, compared to January’s release on Care Compare.
05/12/2022
This tool will help your clinicians get comfortable with new OASIS item N0415 (High-risk drug classes: use and indication) and ensure they are familiar with the high-risk drug classes
05/05/2022
Monitor your state’s guidance around Electronic Visit Verification (EVV) as officials prepare for a federal mandate that Medicaid home health providers use EVV to log visits beginning Jan. 1, 2023.
05/05/2022
As agencies look to set themselves apart from the competition, one thing that can give them a leg up is providing specialty chronic disease programs.

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