Home Health Line
04/17/2017
There are four major things clinicians say when asked what they want in a potential new agency, says Eric Scharber, president of Exact Recruiting in Trinity, Fla., a company that helps Medicare home health agencies with staffing and recruiting.
04/17/2017
New data show there’s still plenty of opportunity for hospices and other providers to educate doctors that advance care planning codes exist and about how to conduct end-of-life discussions.
04/17/2017
The data below show the average number of home health visits per day performed by discipline. The data below are based on 127 responses to HHL’s 2017 Home Health Clinician Productivity Survey. Visits are not weighted.
04/17/2017
by: HHL’s 2017 Productivity Survey
More than 70% of respondents to HHL's 2017 Home Health Clinician Productivity Survey said it took at least five more minutes for clinicians to complete a start-of-care assessment in the first few months after OASIS-C2 began.
04/10/2017
Just one day before the pre-claim review demo was set to expand to include Florida in addition to Illinois, CMS stopped it in its tracks.
04/10/2017
Although home health leaders breathed a sigh of relief about CMS’ March 31 proposal to delay the revised Home Health Conditions of Participation (CoPs), industry experts contend agencies shouldn’t slam the brakes on preparedness efforts.
04/10/2017
It’s important to accurately assess pain for patients who are non-verbal or present other difficulties in communicating, because failure to do so can negatively impact Home Health Compare scores and 5-star ratings.
04/10/2017
Initial pilot testing results related to the IMPACT Act show a few domains such as pain are straightforward and easy to complete. But other domains such as cognitive status and medication reconciliation will require some edits before they get adopted.
04/10/2017
Nine new codes for different types of heart failure could be added to the ICD-10 code set on Oct. 1.
04/10/2017
by: ABILITY Network
The average number of clinical case-mix points in 2016 was 4.04 — that’s relatively stable after it plummeted from 8.27 in 2014 to 4.17 in 2015, according to data from Seattle-based ABILITY Network.

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