Home Health Line
12/29/2021
Agencies should start educating staff now and not wait until the last minute to prepare for the upcoming implementation of OASIS-E on Jan. 1, 2023.
12/16/2021
Agencies should secure a face-to-face encounter that relates to the reason for home health services — and be prepared to defend it under medical review — as a ranking of documentation errors impacting claims puts this issue at the top of the list.
12/16/2021
With companies and workers eager to return to some sort of normalcy, business leaders and company culture experts share their thoughts on what to plan for and expect during this year’s corporate holiday observances.
12/16/2021
Even pre-pandemic, health care organizations were prime targets for hackers and other online threats. That condition has only grown worse over the past 18 months, with vaccine infrastructure becoming a tempting target for bad actors in addition to health care systems’ continuing vulnerability to ransomware attacks.
12/16/2021
More than one quarter (28%) of the 210 respondents to the 2022 Trends Survey said they lost four or more staff members due, at least in part, to the vaccine mandate.
12/16/2021
Nearly three quarters of the 210 respondents to HHL’s 2022 Trends Survey said that they were not planning to implement a mandatory COVID-19 policy until after CMS’ interim final rule was released.
12/14/2021
CMS has joined with the OSHA in suspending its mandate for COVID-19 vaccination of health care workers while the interim final rule is under a legal challenge.
12/14/2021
Employers are in a wait-and-see mode as they ponder next steps in the effort to do business during a pandemic.
12/09/2021
Hospices will want to stay compliant with the requirements to report Hospice Item Set measures as CMS plans to hike the penalty for failing this key piece of the Hospice Quality Reporting Program.
12/09/2021
Agencies sometimes have to deal with the fact that they are losing money consistently because of late documentation. Attorneys say you shouldn't dock pay for clinicians who submit late documentation.

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