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Home Health Care Best Practices: M2250 Pressure Ulcer Care Plan

For the patient with and/or at risk for pressure ulcers, in addition to assessing M2250 Pressure Ulcer care and prevention on OASIS C home health care forms, also include these MyHomecareBiz Best Practice assessment strategies:  

Best Practice Assessment Strategies for Pressure Ulcer...

Posted by Joy Joan E. De Castro, RN, MSN on Jan 31, 2017

Bonus From Home Health Blood Pressure Medications: Fewer Fractures?

(HealthDay News) -- High blood pressure and weakened bones are two big health issues for seniors with and without home health care services.Now, new data suggests that one class of drugs might help protect against both.

Posted by Joy Joan E. De Castro, RN, MSN on Jan 30, 2017

Home Health Care Forms: Orientation Checklist II

Home Health Care Forms - Employee orientation training basics include showing new workers how to perform their jobs safely and efficiently. But thriving home health agencies know that it is important to go much further than that. Orientation is the perfect time to begin soft skills...

Posted by Patty Jampolsky on Jan 25, 2017

Home Health Care - High Rate of Antidepressant Use After Cancer

Nearly 1 in 5 survivors taking medication for depression or anxiety years later

(HealthDay News) -- Treatment for depression and anxiety is nearly twice as common among U.S. cancer survivors as it is for those who never had the disease, a new study finds.

Posted by Patty Jampolsky on Jan 23, 2017

New Home Health Conditions Effective 7/13/2017

FROM MEDICARE: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have finalized HHA care policies and rules governing HHAs that will improve the quality of home health care services for Medicare and Medicaid

Posted by Joy Joan E. De Castro, RN, MSN on Jan 12, 2017

Home Health - Cancer Death Rates Drop 25%

Cancer death rates in the United States have dropped 25 percent since the early 1990s, a new report reveals to MyHomecareBiz.com.

Posted by Joy Joan E. De Castro, RN, MSN on Jan 9, 2017

Denial of Home Health Payments When OASIS Not Received

Medicare Change Request (CR) 9585 directs Intermediaries to automate the denial of Home Health Care Billing Prospective Payment System (HH PPS) claims when the condition of payment for submitting patient assessment data has not been met. Make sure that your HH billing software staff...

Posted by Peggy Mathews on Jan 2, 2017

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:

Posted by Nathan Hope on Dec 15, 2016