Home Health Line
03/04/2021
Ensure clinicians and caregivers are trained on recommended safety protocols around administering COVID-19 vaccinations to homebound patients, the CDC states in recently released guidance.
03/04/2021
Recent PDGM data show that agencies may not have pulled back on therapy visits in 2020 as much as some may have expected.
03/04/2021
Intake staff members are faced with the new challenge of asking patients if they’ve come in contact with or contracted COVID-19, and they’re not always ready for that conversation.
03/04/2021
HHS acting Secretary Norris Cochran declared a public health emergency (PHE) for the state of Texas on February 17 as a result of recent winter storms.
03/04/2021
The U.S. Department of Health and Humans Services has yet to provide a timetable for when agencies will need to report how they used provider relief funds, but agencies should make decisions now on how to account for those expenses.
03/04/2021
The Equality Act, which would prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, is back before Congress. Regardless of its chances at passage, employers should review their policies and practices to guard against discrimination, attorneys who advise employers say.
03/04/2021
This chart shows the average number of therapy visits that agencies performed in the first 10 months of PDGM compared to the average number of therapy visits in CMS’ Limited Data Set for all periods in 2018.

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