Home Health Line
11/02/2023
As agencies continue to struggle with staffing, payment cuts may force them to tighten their costs around recruitment making retention a top priority.
11/02/2023
When including telehealth during a home health period, focus on appropriate documentation in the Plan of Care (POC) to avoid what was a frequent compliance error in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.
11/02/2023
Be sure to include a timestamp with electronic face-to-face signatures. 
11/02/2023
Effectively tracking clinical groupings and using that information to invest in training can not only better patient outcomes but can help agencies to save money before payment cuts take effect.
11/02/2023
In a November meeting, the commission will review the hospice workplan over the coming 18 months, including hospice’s effect on net Medicare spending.
11/02/2023
Wound care and endocrine patients required the most nursing visits from January to December 2022.
10/26/2023
CMS has stated that “the full permanent adjustment may be burdensome for some providers.” But officials believe applying the full adjustment could potentially reduce any future permanent adjustments.
10/26/2023
More efficient visit use could be one way to address looming payment cuts. But be sure to balance decisions to cut visits with what the patient really needs and LUPA potential. 
10/26/2023
An intercepted fall would be considered a fall under M1033 (Risk for hospitalization) response “1 — History of falls (2 or more falls — or any fall with an injury — in the past 12 months),” CMS clarified in the quarterly OASIS Q&As, released Oct. 17. 
10/26/2023
As CMS takes a closer look at hospice documentation, many of the technical mistakes made around documentation at the Start of Care could cause denials.

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