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Congestive Heart Failure (CHF): Teaching & Care Plan for Home Health
For the patient with Congestive Heart Failure, in addition to assessing Shortness of breath M1400 on OASIS also include these MyHomecareBiz Best Practice assessment strategies:
OASIS M1910 - Medicare Guidelines for Assessing Fall Risk
Adapted from Medicare's OASIS Guidance Manual: Include the following home health care OASIS Best Practices for completing M1910 Falls Risk Assessment:(M1910) Has this patient had a multi-factor Falls Risk Assessment using a standardized, validated assessment tool?
Home Health Coding: Medicare Do's & Don'ts under PDGM
With CMS’s Home Health Patient Driven Groupings Model (PDGM) that became effective 1/1/2020, the practice of coding home health OASIS assessments also changed. Before, we recorded six (6) diagnosis codes on the OASIS assessment. Now, we can include up to twenty-five (25) diagnoses on...
How to Get a Prior Authorization for Home Health Billing
Certain payers require prior authorizations.
Depending on the payer, a home health agency (HHA) may be required to obtain a ‘prior authorization’ (PA) for home health billing and to determine insurance eligibility. Think of prior authorization as “permission” to provide a type of...
COVID-19: Three (3) Requirements for (Early) Discharge Planning
Prepare Patients for Early Discharge
Preparing non-priority home health patients for early discharge should be the primary objective of home health agencies right now. Since accessibility to routine healthcare is currently suspended, home health agencies should prepare patients and...
COVID-19: Substitutions for Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
It's no secret that healthcare providers - hospitals, nursing homes, clinics, doctor's offices - and home health agencies - have run out of - or are running out of - personal protective gear (PPE). Because of the shortage of PPE, the CDC has announced methods to optimize the supply of...
COVID-19: Daily Management Plan for Home Health Agencies
1. Provide home health services to priority patients only.
Since the corona virus in the US is not contained, the presumption must be that anyone can have the COVID-19 virus. Under these circumstances your HHA must limit contact to patients that require critical care and have no one -...
COVID-19 & Home Health: Your Emergency Preparedness Plan
So, now it's happened. We have the pandemic called COVID-19. The coronavirus causes illness ranging from the common cold to more severe respiratory infections. COVID-19, the most recently discovered coronavirus disease, was first seen in December 2019 in China.
