Recent Posts
Home Health Management: Disaster Preparedness
As part of your home health management planning include disaster preparedness to satisfy JCAHO, CHAP and ACHC compliance.
In the event of a flood, fire, hurricane, tornado, blizzard, wind storm, and any other disaster that affects the delivery of scheduled home health care services,...
2020 PDGM Utilization for Congestive Heart Failure: Home Health Careplan
There are thirty-six (36) different casemix scenarios for cardiac patients under Medicare's Patient-Driven-Groupings- Model (PDGM) payment system that goes into effect January 1, 2020. The casemix is contingent on from where the patient was discharged, her/his functional abilities,...
Medicare Updates Home Health Re-Certification Requirements
Estimation of Duration of Services No Longer Required
Effective April 22, 2019, certifying physicians who sign patients' home health plan of care DO NOT need to estimate how long the patient will continue to need home health care.
Reduce Hospitalizations for Patients on Antibiotics
Antibiotic-Resistant Infections Pose Critical Health Issues & Increases Hospital Admissions
Patients at High Risk for Infection While On Antibiotics
- Cancer patients receiving chemotherapy;
- Patients aged 80 and older;
- Patients living with HIV;
- Patients receiving immunosuppressive...
Electrify Your Home Care Marketing: Get Board-Certified Specialists
Board-certified specialists will double your referrals.
Home Care Marketing...What would be the ideal 'opening dialogue' to have with a potential referral source like a physician or discharge planner? It should go something like this...
Are Your Physicians Billing Home Health Claims for CPO?
'Care Plan Oversight' can earn physicians thousands per month. Provide the following guidance to physicians to enhance your referral-building relationships.
adapted from the Medicare Learning Series: Care Plan Oversight Home Health (CPO) is physician supervision of patients under...
2018 CoPs: (Draft) Interpretive Guidelines for §484.80 HHA Duties
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a draft of the Interpretive Guidelines to the final Conditions of Participation scheduled to be implemented January 13, 2018. CMS has asked for feedback on the Draft Interpretive Guidelines. The draft Interpretive Guidelines...
