Home Health Line
07/27/2023
by: Robert Markette
Competitive personal time off (PTO) plans can be key to attracting and retaining staff, but agencies need to be sure their packages are consistent and compliant.
07/27/2023
Hospices should focus on preventing condition-level survey deficiencies to avoid inclusion in the Special Focus Program (SFP) that CMS is proposing for low-performing hospices in 2024.
07/27/2023
by: DecisionHealth Staff
Home health agencies are behind home care and hospice providers when it comes to offering professional training programs, according to the 14th Annual Home Care Pulse Benchmarking Report. The following chart shows the percentage of agencies that used a professional training program in 2022 by line of business.
07/21/2023
Prepare for potential quality measures and public reporting around social determinants of health, cognitive assessments, pain management and more as CMS seeks feedback on a broad range of potential additions to the Home Health Quality Reporting Program (HHQRP) in future rulemaking.
07/21/2023
Ensure your marketing team can both recognize and track referral patterns — even those that do not lead to an in-home visit — as the underlying causes may offer keen insight into agency opportunities.
07/21/2023
Frontloading is a best practice for reducing hospitalizations and improving patient outcomes, but agencies need to be aware of LUPA issues and the costs that can come with frontloading.
07/21/2023
Now is the time to get creative with fall detection capabilities by considering options in the marketplace and already in the patient’s home that could help avoid injury.
07/21/2023
"If the home-based care industry is not successful at providing sufficient levels of high-quality care, our population is going to be pretty upset, and they’re going to miss out on something that they deserve in their life journey."
07/21/2023
Agencies can expect a payment decrease in 2024 for 30-day home health periods, but payments for individual visits are expected to go up slightly.
07/13/2023
The payment decrease includes a permanent 5.65% cut in national, standardized 30-day period payments in response to behavioral adjustments due to utilization under PDGM.

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