Home Health Line
09/12/2024
An increase in the number of agencies hiring more remote coders was among the trends identified in DecisionHealth’s 2024 Home Health Coders’ Salary Survey. This could have an impact in two ways — more competition among individual coders for work and decreased professional oversight.
09/12/2024
Rising inflationary costs and decreased Medicare reimbursement may be fueling the continuous movement of agencies turning to outsourcing their coding.
09/12/2024
Staff evaluations can offer more than a measuring stick for individual performance. Done right, they can provide a comprehensive view of a department or agency’s overall performance and often lead to improved efficiency, staff retention and patient outcomes.
09/12/2024
Hospice providers are seeing continued improvement on key measures in the Hospice Item Set, according to the latest refresh of Care Compare data on Aug. 28, 2024.
08/29/2024
Prioritize OASIS training to try to find a last-minute boost in your Home Health Value-Based Purchasing (HHVBP) results for 2024. And get ready for the changes impacting your scores in 2025.
08/29/2024
Motivate clinicians to learn the individual preferences, needs and nonverbal cues of patients with dementia to prevent unsafe or inappropriate situations and improve patient outcomes.
08/29/2024
Stressing the importance of informed consent and eligibility requirements among hospice patients could help your agency better inform staff about the live discharge process and prevent avoidable revocations.
08/29/2024
New codes to better capture intervertebral disc degeneration of the lumbar and lumbosacral regions will be available for use come October. These new codes will be based on whether the patient has discogenic back pain, lower extremity pain or no mention of either type of pain.
08/29/2024
Live discharges as a share of all discharges have increased in recent years.
08/22/2024
Working to connect patients with local resources for housing stability and utility access could boost high-risk patients’ engagement with the plan of care and see fewer rehospitalizations.

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