Home Health Line
04/02/2018
For employees who drive on agency time, the issue of distracted driving isn’t just about the safety of the employee and others on the road — it’s also the about potential for employer liability.
04/02/2018
Ensure documentation from your agency’s clinicians goes beyond an electronic medical records (EMR) system’s check box charting.
04/02/2018
Rural agencies might have to wait a while before they get 3% add-on payments for claims submitted in early 2018.
04/02/2018
by: HHL’s 2018 Trends Survey
About 64% of agencies will spend more on quality improvement/assurance roles in 2018 than they had the prior year, according to the 163 respondents to a question on HHL’s 2018 Trends Survey.
04/02/2018
by: Arlene Maxim, a home health expert based in Troy, Mich.
Home health agencies should provide intake employees with a supplemental form they can use to gather additional information they’ll need as part of the patient rights portion of the revised Home Health Conditions of Participation (CoPs). This tool is necessary because many agencies struggle to compile key patient information in advance of the initial evaluation.
03/28/2018
National beta testing of data elements under the IMPACT Act is about to wrap up, and in the coming weeks participants will be surveyed about their experiences.
03/26/2018
Take steps to ensure the small pool of home health patients you have who can or do bathe would be willing to serve as test subjects for your aides’ competency training.
03/26/2018
Thoroughly examine clinicians’ documentation — and ensure it’s detailed — when your agency cares for patients who have a diagnosis of hypertension and require an unusually long length of stay.
03/26/2018
Interim changes in physician orders and the plan of care don’t automatically restart the timeframe for physician review of the plan of care, CMS confirmed in a recent answer to HHL’s request for clarification.
03/26/2018
Remain calm and listen attentively during exit conferences, because there may be situations where the surveyor believes your agency made a mistake that should be cited — and your agency can prove there wasn’t a mistake at all.

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