Home Health Line
05/16/2018
Leaders from several agencies that earned 5 stars in quality of care in April 2018 contend that educating patients on their own self-care — and frontloading visits — is crucial to preventing those with pneumonia from being rehospitalized.
05/16/2018
The home health industry will once again receive regularly posted OASIS Q&A guidance from CMS — something that hasn’t occurred in nearly two years.
05/16/2018
CMS is considering adding to Hospice Compare a quality measure that reflects the rate of hospices’ live discharges that are followed by a hospitalization/emergency room visit/observation stay within seven days or are followed by death within 30 days.
05/16/2018
In-home support services and adult day care services are on the list of supplemental benefits to be allowed under Medicare Advantage plans in 2019, according to a recent CMS memo.
05/16/2018
by: Minneapolis-based ABILITY Network
About 19.3% of patients with a primary diagnosis of pneumonia were rehospitalized within 30 days of hospital discharge in 2017, according to an analysis by Minneapolis-based ABILITY Network. That’s an improvement of 0.6% from 2014.
05/14/2018
Understand your options when filing Medicare cost reports now that CMS allows entirely electronic submission. Filing electronically gives agencies another tool to ensure reports are submitted timely — and thus payments won’t be temporarily cut off.
05/14/2018
Following a recent DecisionHealth webinar about responding to additional documentation requests (ADRs), agencies asked questions of Annette Lee, owner of Provider Insights, Inc., in Des Moines, Iowa. Lee is a former clinical education consultant with Medicare Administrative Contractor (MAC) CGS. 
05/14/2018
Seek out ways to encourage and promote your agency’s top caregivers. Doing so will help with your agency’s retention rate — an ongoing struggle that’s worse now than ever before for the private duty industry.
05/14/2018
Home care agencies that offer caregivers the most money have turnover rates far lower than the national average, while agencies that pay the least have significant turnover rates.
05/14/2018
The Joint Commission no longer will require agencies to provide patients with a copy of a full written plan of care. Removal of language that “The organization provides the patient with a written individualized plan of care” is effective April 30.

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