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Home Health: Even a Little Exercise Can Help With Arthritis
Home health care - from HealthDay: Just a little physical activity seems to go a long way toward helping older adults with arthritis remain able to do daily tasks, a new study finds.
Home Health Care Out-Performs Post-Acute Providers
A recent report has shown that home health agencies are outperforming their post-acute counterparts as a whole in terms of rehospitalization rates. Data released last Wednesday by the Alliance for Home Health Quality and Innovation shows that home health agencies have markedly...
OASIS C2 - Best Practices for Completing M1900 Fall Risk
Include the following home health care OASIS C2 Best Practices for completing M1900 Falls Risk Assessment on MyHomecareBiz:
Home Health Care Services versus Assisted Living Cost Comparisons
A report recently published by the Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) has found that payments via Medicare for hospice services in assisted living facilities have increased nearly twofold in the past five years when cared to other options such as home health...
Home Health Care: 50% of Patients Non-Compliant with Meds...
MacMaster University in Canada has recently released a new study, led by Robby Nieuwlaat, showing that half of home health care patients do not take their medications as prescribed, despite any med teaching interventions.
Prepare for OASIS C2 Changes: M1060 - Height and Weight
This blog post will be covering new OASIS C2 item: M1060: Height and Weight
OASIS C2 Changes Coming January 1st - Are You Prepared?
With OASIS C2 being implemented on January 1st 2017, it’s extremely important that your agency or facility is educated with the upcoming changes. Because of this, we’d like to do our part in helping all agencies familiarize themselves with the new additions and modifications to...
Home Health Care Policies - Medicare Hospice Transparency Data (CY2014) Revealed
Info via CMS.gov:
Home Health Care Policies - Today, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a new dataset, the Hospice Utilization and Payment Public Use File (Hospice PUF). This data set, which is part of CMS’s suite of Medicare Provider Utilization and...
