Home Health Line
02/15/2024
Select QAPI items that affect the most patients, are the most critical or have the least amount of improvement needed to move the needle to show the fastest positive results.
02/15/2024
Ensuring that your clinicians understand what should be included in their wound care documentation can help to reduce the number of claims denied due to lack of medical necessity.
02/15/2024
With more specific codes available for Parkinson’s and COPD, one Medicare Administrative Contractor is shifting the codes it’s using for Targeted Probe & Educate reviews.
02/15/2024
Agencies that practice more preventative care through helping patients gain access to healthier food and empowering them to follow better food habits, will impact the number of patients admitted to the hospital.
02/15/2024
The CDC posted updated 2024 ICD-10-CM guidelines on Jan. 22, which included a sequencing update for sepsis due to postprocedural infection.
02/15/2024
Nearly 15% of Medicare beneficiaries ages 65 to 74 reported being food insecure in CMS’ most recent Financial Well-Being Report for 2021. The report included beneficiaries living in the community.
02/15/2024
This tool may be used as a guide to assist agencies in building the framework for a strong, compliant QAPI program.
02/08/2024
Even though COVID-19 has exacerbated breathing issues, especially in the elderly, agencies are finding ways to improve in this measure that is used to calculate Home Health Value-Based Purchasing payment adjustments.
02/08/2024
A growing challenge for agencies this year will be filling management roles, but those agencies that work to create career ladders will thrive.
02/08/2024
With more selective buyers in the marketplace, agency owners looking to sell are going to have to make sure they have all of their ducks in a row to stand out as an attractive opportunity in mergers and acquisition (M&A).

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