Home Health Line
01/04/2023
The omnibus spending bill to fund the government through 2023 included a requirement that CMS increase transparency around its home health payment rate.
01/04/2023
One of the areas agencies need to focus on improving is discharge to the community, as this area is not only heavily scrutinized, but affects patient satisfaction scores in HHCAHPS.
01/04/2023
The HIS score for “Hospice and Palliative Care Pain Assessment” decreased by 0.1 in the November update. While this may seem like a miniscule change, this particular measure continues to score lower than several of the other measures.
01/04/2023
Research indicates that remote workers are promoted less, because managers are often biased towards those workers they see in person. And in fact, as organizations adjust to this new world of remote / hybrid work, in-person workers often do have greater access to managers.
01/04/2023
The latest HIS item results shows little change, except for a decrease in pain assessment.
12/21/2022
Millennials can be a particularly tricky audience to recruit. But it should be a priority in 2023 as this part of the workforce will play a major role in your future success. To attract these workers, get to know their needs and how to appeal to them.
12/21/2022
Clinicians will not only need to adjust to new assessments but will need to learn their way around the new layout of the OASIS instrument. This is going to take time and practice.
12/21/2022
Working to improve in emergency department without hospitalization rates can have effects beyond the one measure. Patients often do not want to go to the emergency department, so agencies that can keep their patients home may see an increase in the patient satisfaction scores, which is another piece of HHVBP.
12/21/2022
Analytics on productivity, utilization (overall visits and discipline visits) and recertification rates also can help identify outliers among case managers and areas for further review. If you have clinicians who are never meeting productivity expectations, determine whether they’re spending enough time in the home and whether their patients are more complex.
12/21/2022
Data inside includes "Top issues expected to impact finances & ops in 2023," "Extra time OASIS-E will add to SOC, " "Majority of agencies expect revenue decrease in 2023" and "Agencies focus in on ACH & ED use."

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