Home Health Line
05/06/2019
Under the Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM), many agencies plan to put in place new productivity requirements for nurses. In HHL’s PDGM Survey, agencies were provided a list of options and asked how they planned to change staff roles in an attempt to achieve optimal productivity for PDGM. They could mark all responses that applied. Nearly 31% of 305 respondents to this question marked that they would have new productivity requirements for nurses.
04/29/2019
Evaluate your agency’s policies on what qualifies as a significant change in condition and when your agency will complete an “other follow-up” OASIS assessment.
04/29/2019
While the hospice industry is expected to receive about $540 million in increased payments in 2020, hospice providers should curb the enthusiasm until they fully analyze how the changes will impact the business.
04/29/2019
CMS guidance around how a new quality measure works offers valuable clarifications for agencies and clinicians struggling to understand new OASIS-D items capturing self-care and mobility.
04/29/2019
Following a recent DecisionHealth webinar about understanding therapy and how it will work under the Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM), agencies asked questions of industry expert Jennifer Sandel, co-owner of Home Care Service Solutions LLC in Battle Creek, Mich.
04/29/2019
Agencies should ensure that their websites are compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) so that they can reduce their risk of being targeted in a lawsuit or government enforcement action.
04/29/2019
by: PDGM Survey
Under the Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM), many agencies plan to begin using LPNs in situations where RNs otherwise would have been used.
04/22/2019
Specificity will play an even larger role under the Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM), where failure to assign a primary diagnosis code that fits into one of the 12 clinical groups could cause your claim to be returned for further information. This could mean payment delays and potential red flags for auditors.
04/22/2019
Guidance on new items capturing information on falls, mobility, self-care and prior device use took center stage in the second set of quarterly OASIS Q&As that CMS issued since OASIS-D took effect Jan. 1.
04/22/2019
For agencies using Windows 7, now is the time to consider purchasing new computers or buying new operating systems to protect your patient information.

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