Home Health Line
12/14/2009
by: Barbara Akst
The first 30 seconds of your initial contact with prospective clients can make or break the sale.
12/14/2009
Contracts preventing clients from hiring away your caregivers are commonplace in the private duty industry, but many of them, including yours, may be unenforceable.
12/14/2009
The transfer OASIS form may have been a breeze for clinicians to complete in the past, but agencies fear the new OASIS-C version could take clinicians up to 90 minutes
12/07/2009
One side effect of health care reform could be that fewer Medicaid agencies will be able to participate in state home and community-based care programs.
12/07/2009
CMS isn’t offering agencies any wiggle room if they exceed the outlier cap, which will be 10% of total Medicare payments, starting Jan. 1.
12/07/2009
Hospices could receive smaller Medicare overpayment demands related to the hospice cap if federal district court decisions in Los Angeles and Oklahoma City are upheld by higher courts.
12/07/2009
One Minnesota HHA recently experienced an agency’s worst nightmare – one of its clinicians died in a car crash on her way to work.
12/07/2009
Look for a summary of changes to CMS’s OASIS-C guidance manual as soon as Dec. 11.
12/07/2009
Oregon hospice to settle false claims action. Kaiser Northwest Region Hospice and its parent company will pay $1.8 million for failing to obtain written certifications of terminal illness for patients
12/07/2009
Use this worksheet in your OASIS-C training program to help clinicians “connect the dots” and understand how the new OASIS-C transforms into HHRGs and affects payments, says its creator, Trish Tulloch, senior consultant with RBC Limited, Staatsburg, N.Y. Tulloch recommends having clinicians complete this form for an existing admission to give them a sense of how the new OASIS-C questions interact to describe patient complexity. This sheet pertains to only early-episode, low-therapy patients.

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