Home Health Best Practices for COPD - SN Teaching and Care Plan
For the patient with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease COPD, in addition to assessing shortness of breath on M1400, also include these Best Practice assessment strategies:
Home Health Management of Hypertension
High blood pressure is the most common home health diagnosis.
Home Health Management - High blood pressure is called the “silent killer" because it often has no warning signs or symptoms and patients don't realize they have hypertension. The 'silent' nature of the disease only...
Do Your Home Health Aides Know Basic Grooming Principles?
One of the most challenging responsibilities that home health workers have when taking of the elderly is providing personal care. Maintaining personal hygiene and grooming while promoting independence are vital to enabling the elderly patient to feel the best about his or her own self,
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,...
Exercising 2.5 Hours a Week May Slow Parkinson's Progression
Regular exercise can slow the progression of the disease.
FROM HEALTHDAY: Parkinson's disease can cause tremors, stiffness and trouble with walking. But a new study suggests that regular exercise can slow the progression of the disease, MyHomecareBiz.com has learned.Even those with...
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.
5 Billing Basics for Perfect Medicare Home Health Final Claims
The path to fast payment of a home health final claim is a no-brainer – make sure the Final is error-free. Medicare rejects a claim on an error-by-error basis. You can fix one mistake and the inspector then re-examines the claim for other inconsistencies. This can be exceedingly...