Home Health Line
02/08/2024
COVID-19 continues to impact patient breathing in some patients, but agencies nationally are seeing improvement in the measure “How often patients’ breathing improved,” according to Care Compare results.
02/02/2024
Learn how one agency is starting to leverage new machine-learning algorithms to receive real-time alerts to track patient hospitalization risk, visit utilization, hospital admissions, discharges and more. Using these strategies the agency reduced its hospitalization rate by over 40% in less than one year.
02/02/2024
Make sure your documentation clearly justifies the patient’s need for skilled services, as medical necessity appears to be a top concern for auditors in the latest post-payment review.
02/02/2024
Agencies struggling with recruitment need to discard old recruitment methods and create new, transparent job listings that will attract the right staff. This can be done through story-telling recruitment.
02/02/2024
LUPA rates are up compared to 2019. Even though the pandemic ended last spring, lingering COVID-19 cases and other airborne infections are still affecting whether or not someone accepts or keeps home health services.
02/02/2024
The CDC posted updated FY2024 ICD-10-CM guidelines, including a sequencing update for sepsis due to postprocedural infection.
02/02/2024
Agencies increased salaries over the last year to attract and keep quality clinicians.
01/25/2024
Continued payment cuts under PDGM, including a large perceived overpayment to home health providers that CMS plans to eventually recoup, are at the top of the agenda for industry advocates in Washington.
01/25/2024
An AV fistula, whether it is being accessed or not, does not meet the definition of IV Access for O0110O1 (Special Treatments, Procedures and Programs; Other - IV Access), CMS clarified in response to a question in the January 2024 quarterly OASIS Q&As. 
01/25/2024
Updated rules in determining who is an independent contractor and who is an employee offer an important reminder that, under both the existing and updated rules, home health workers rarely meet the definition of “independent contractor.”

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