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Peripheral Vascular Disease (PVD): How to Answer OASIS M1028
Here are a few key points to remember when answering the home health care form OASIS M1028 for Peripheral Vascular Disease for MyHomecareBiz:
- The physician or physician designee must confirm that these diagnoses are active and associated with the patient’s home health episode of care.
4 Exercises for the Chairbound to Improve Upper Body Strength
As part of your rehabilitation plan for patients with deficits in M1850 Transferring and M1840 Toilet Transferring, M1830 Bathing and other activities of daily living (ADLs) that require upper body strength, the following four (4) exercises are recommended for patients who are...
Are You Tracking These Four (4) Items For Infection Surveillance?
Home health care treatments frequently include invasive devices and procedures to treat patients. Infections can occur from the these procedures/devices, such as catheters, wound care and ventilators.
6 Ways to Improve Home Health Face to Face
MISSING FACE-TO-FACE FROM PHYSICIAN CERTIFICATION
In its newsletter CGS Medicare reports that many physician certifications do not contain a statement documenting the date of the home health face-to-face encounter.
7 Keys to Home Health Employee Retention
The quality of home health employees management that a nurse, therapist or aide receives is critical to employee retention. The reasons home health workers leave their jobs has more to do with management and supervision not the job itself.
COPD: Do Field Staff Know The Fundamentals?
From Nurselabs: Any respiratory disease that persistently obstructs bronchial airflow fall under the broad classification of COPD, also known as chronic airflow limitations (CAL). Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is a condition of chronic dyspnea with expiratory airflow...
What's the Difference between Advance Careplans & Advance Directives?
Documentation of a patient's Advance Care Planning was one of 3 new HOME HEALTH PROCESS MEASURES required under home health Value-based Purchasing in 2016. Under Value-based Purchasing home health agencies are required to...
Are You Using Telehealth? There's No Scheduled End Date...
The Medicare system is under an ‘Emergency Declaration’ due to the Coronavirus Pandemic. This means that certain home health regulations have been relaxed and some requirements have been changed to prevent the interruption in home health care. All temporary changes to home health...
