Home Health Line
05/05/2022
Both home health and hospice agencies have an underutilized resource at their disposal to assess and reduce risks to patients: the Program for Evaluating Payment Patterns Electronic Report.
05/05/2022
The use of Medical Social Workers (MSWs) in home health agencies has been on a quarter-over-quarter downward trend throughout the pandemic, according to new data from Strategic Healthcare Programs.
05/05/2022
While remote patient monitoring has been shown in studies to improve patient satisfaction, agencies need to carefully construct training for both clinicians and patients to get the biggest bang for the buck.
05/05/2022
This table breaks down the average number of visits per period, for each of the home health disciplines. The data include 6.8 million 30-day start dates for each of the fiscal years 2020 and 2021 from Strategic Healthcare Programs’ national client database.
04/28/2022
Agency leaders tasked with preparing for the national rollout of the Home Health Value-Based Purchasing (HHVBP) model in 2023 will want to monitor CMS resources as a flood of new tools are planned for release in the coming months.
04/28/2022
Any assistance or transportation required to get medications into the home should not be taken into consideration when answering OASIS items M2020 and M2030, CMS clarified in the quarterly Q&As, released April 19.
04/28/2022
Industry experts were glad to see the inclusion of several new proposed codes to further identify the stage of severity and behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD).
04/28/2022
Recently a bill was signed into law in Indiana requiring home health aides to complete dementia training, making Indiana one of 13 states that has a dementia training requirement for home health aides.
04/28/2022
There is no shortage of studies illuminating the unpredictable nature of the workforce today. From spikes in resignations last year to widespread employee demand for continued remote work options post-pandemic, the future of work is no longer a phenomenon we “expect” to happen — it’s here.
04/28/2022
This table shows the percentage of periods that fell in each of the PDGM clinical groups for those periods that started in December 2021 versus January 2020.

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