Home Health Line
09/28/2009
Though CMS won’t require agencies to report OASIS-C process measures, 74% of agencies plan to complete them, according to 169 respondents to HHL’s September OASIS-C survey.
09/28/2009
With just three months until agencies are required to use the OASIS-C assessment tool, consider these training strategies from home health experts:Start with the eight new process measures. Agencies can
09/28/2009
Limit any home health rate reductions caused by PPS rebasing to no more than 5% above the average of all standard business costs.
09/28/2009
Agencies soon may benefit from better-prepared home care patients, more referrals and improved communications with hospitals.
09/28/2009
An advanced therapy, designed to treat incontinence, has helped one agency earn up to nine new referral sources and five new patients per month.
09/28/2009
CMS updated its Home Health Compare website on Sept. 14. The scores show a one percentage point improvement in pain to 64%, as well as a one percentage point decrease
09/28/2009
CMS released its new OASIS-C guidance manual minus instructions on the wound questions this week. The following chart lists CMS’s new guidance for some of the OASIS questions that experts predict could be worth case-mix points.
09/28/2009
Although the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) delayed implementation of its Red Flags Rule for almost a year – the majority of private duty agencies are still confused about how the federal
09/28/2009
Agencies now have most of the materials they need to train staff with the recent partial release of the OASIS-C guidance manual.
09/21/2009
The Senate Finance Committee has begun work on legislation that would be good news for the industry if its home health provisions make it all the way through the health

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