Home Health Line
02/26/2018
As agencies work to comply with the revised Home Health Conditions of Participation (CoPs), they continue to ask detailed questions of industry experts. Here are responses from consultant Arlene Maxim, a home health expert based in Troy, Mich., attorney Robert Markette of Indianapolis-based Hall, Render, Killian, Heath & Lyman and attorney Elizabeth Pearson of Pearson & Bernard in Edgewood, Ky.
02/26/2018
Ask patients if they have been concerned or fretted over a number of things lately. Doing so will help patients open up and relay any anxiety issues which, if undetected and untreated, could potentially cause worse patient outcomes.
02/26/2018
Some pressure ulcer data was mistakenly excluded from recent CMS reports on quality measures for home health agencies, but CMS says the data will be corrected before the measure is publicly reported on Home Health Compare.
02/26/2018
by: Minneapolis-based ABILITY Network Inc.
About 45% of the time at start of care (SOC), clinicians mark that patients experience anxiety at least some of the time, according to data from Minneapolis-based ABILITY Network Inc.
02/22/2018
President Donald Trump has submitted a national budget for 2019 which, like his prior annual budget, provided guidelines that may or may not be followed by Congress.
02/22/2018
Amid the national #MeToo movement centered on sexual harassment and gender discrimination in American culture, agencies should be prepared to take action after learning an employee has made allegations via social media regarding the agency, its clients or its managers.
02/22/2018
Before determining whether it makes sense for your private duty agency to contract with Medicare Advantage (MA) plans, examine your population and local plan options.

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