Home Health Line
03/26/2018
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) is once again recommending a 5% Medicare payment reduction for home health agencies.
03/26/2018
The recognition one Michigan hospice has achieved by organizing an annual dancing competition involving area stars has helped its census grow about 15% per year over the past five years and its likes on Facebook rise from about 500 to about 20,000.
03/26/2018
by: Strategic Healthcare Programs (SHP), Santa Barbara, Calif.
Among the more than 4 million episodes of care ending in 2017 for clients of Strategic Healthcare Programs (SHP), 6.6% involved patients with hypertension as a primary diagnosis.
03/23/2018
Click "Download file" to view details on where to find your area's local Agency on Aging; Center for Independent Living; Protection and Advocacy Agency; Aging and Disability Resource Center; and Quality Improvement Organization.
03/22/2018
A new transmittal from CMS details how rural add-on payments to home health agencies will be processed in 2018.
03/19/2018
Expect the final interpretive guidelines for the revised Home Health Conditions of Participation (CoPs) to include several changes regarding the comprehensive assessment when they’re released in about six to eight weeks, a CMS official told attendees of ElevatingHOME’s National Leadership Conference on March 9 in Washington D.C.
03/19/2018
Industry experts contend the release of OASIS-D next year will add another layer of confusion for clinicians, particularly since many continue to struggle with the existing assessment.
03/19/2018
Instruct clinicians to wait until the end of the initial visit to ask patients and their caregivers about the patient’s confusion.
03/19/2018
Organize a survey binder with key items so you’ll be more prepared for entrance interviews at the beginning of surveys.
03/19/2018
Take steps to bolster the documentation your hospice provides to support patients’ eligibility and for the level of hospice care you bill.

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