Home Health Line
01/09/2019
Ensure clinicians fully understand how to fill out the OASIS item involving grooming.
01/09/2019
Ensure home health aides at your agency understand various factors that could contribute to a fall — and that aides report those risks. When aides know what to look for, risk factors become easy to spot.
01/09/2019
The cost for providing care to private duty clients has once again increased, according to the 2018 Genworth Cost of Care Study.
01/09/2019
by: Santa Barbara, Calif.-based Strategic Healthcare Programs
Muscle weakness (generalized) was by far the most commonly used primary diagnosis that would be deemed questionable under the Patient-Driven Groupings Model, according to 2017 data from Santa Barbara, Calif.-based Strategic Healthcare Programs.
01/02/2019
By having case conferences to discuss specific patients, agencies help ensure compliance with the revised Home Health Conditions of Participation (CoPs).
01/02/2019
CMS released the final OASIS-D guidance manual less than two weeks before the new version of the assessment took effect. Not all expected changes were outlined in the final version.
01/02/2019
Ever questioned whether it was good or appropriate to pay your accrediting organization (AO) for consulting services on how to comply with the same standards it set that allow you to stay in business?
01/02/2019
Practices have been part of a boom in advance care planning in recent years, but CMS’ open-ended rules and the wide eligibility parameters for the two advance care planning codes suggest plenty of room for growth.
01/02/2019
CMS has published updated details on potentially avoidable events, process and outcome measures for 2019. The updated tables also include details on star-ratings measures and quality measures new to Home Health Compare in 2019.
01/02/2019
CMS recently released a list of measures under consideration for various Medicare programs, including the Home Health Quality Reporting Program and Hospice Quality Reporting Program.

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