Home Health Line
08/15/2024
The best caregivers or clinicians are the ones who have empathy for their client, patient or loved one. If the capacity for empathy has been depleted, it could negatively impact the patient or client’s care.
08/15/2024
Regardless of the pandemic and industry changes since PDGM, hospitals still account for roughly one-in-four home health referrals.
08/08/2024
CMS finalized the national payment update, new quality measures around pain and non-pain symptom response, the HOPE instrument and CAHPS updates.
08/08/2024
Each MAC has warned providers that claims will not be paid if the record doesn’t show a hand-off or documentation of the agency reaching back out to a previous physician or non-physician practitioner when there is a change in the practitioner guiding the care plan.
08/08/2024
Providers that fail to coordinate and document interdisciplinary communication risk claim denials, survey citations or patient injury.
08/08/2024
A panel of experts looked at guardrails and strategies to mitigate the risks to patients and health care workers when using AI to help with documentation, clinical decision making and patient-facing chatbots.
08/08/2024
CMS finalized a 2.9% payment rate update for fiscal year 2025, but the impact of the rate will differ depending on the hospice wage index of the local Census designated area.
08/01/2024
Reevaluate your agency’s emergency preparedness plans and remind clinicians to review the procedures with patients and caregivers ahead of a potential weather event to avoid costly survey citations.
08/01/2024
When answering M2001 (Drug Regimen Review), it’s important to understand the OASIS guidelines for a clinically significant medication issue and a potential clinically significant medication issue.
08/01/2024
At the beginning and end of every visit to Assisted Living facilities (ALFs), ask clinicians to communicate with the wellness directors, letting them know they are going to see the patient and the status of the visit.

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