Home Health Line
01/30/2019
The home health industry’s scores on bathing, transferring and ambulation showed continued improvement when Home Health Compare was refreshed Jan. 23.
01/30/2019
Agencies with The Joint Commission as their accrediting body will soon have an increased need to educate patients about opioids.
01/30/2019
A new memo alerts state survey agency directors that when home health agencies face civil monetary penalties, those penalties will be greater than they had been in prior years.
01/30/2019
For several years, the home health industry hadn’t had any positive or negative changes in any of the five major HHCAHPS categories.
01/30/2019
by: Home Health Compare
Agencies have continued to improve in several Home Health Compare measures included within value-based purchasing, according to data released Jan. 23.
01/24/2019
With less than a month of OASIS-D under their belts, many agencies are struggling with accuracy and productivity challenges associated with the assessment. But newly released CMS quarterly OASIS Q&As may help eliminate some confusion.
01/24/2019
More agencies plan to focus on improving the rate of acute care hospitalizations than any other quality of care star ratings measure in 2019.
01/24/2019
by: Joan Usher
Case conferences will take on increased importance when the Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM) launches on or after Jan. 1, 2020.
01/24/2019
Rural add-on payments have changed significantly for many agencies this year, with some providers receiving more money than before and others receiving far less.
01/24/2019
Use CMS’ new GG self-care and mobility activity decision tree to determine appropriate responses for those items when filling out OASIS-D.

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