Hip Replacement: Assessment, Patient Teaching & Recall Guide
A home health assessment of the post-operative status of a patient with hip replacement surgery focuses on the following five elements: 1. surgical wound healing, including assessing for signs of site infection2. pain control3. bed-chair transferring ability4. transferring ability to...
Teach Home Safety for OASIS-E B1000 Vision Deficit
Are you Careplanning for a Vision Deficit?
Patients typically have risk factors that make clinical and rehabilitative care more complicated – confusion, non-compliance, lack of family support…and a vision deficit. These are just a few example of factors that create impediments to a...
Pain Management: PDGM Utilization Recommendations
A home health pain management program can be executed by either nursing or therapy. Patients requiring pain management should use a combination of medical (chronic pain medications) and non-medical intervention such as guided imagery, distraction, relaxation - among others. ...
Hip Replacement: 2024 PDGM Utilization Guidelines
Hip replacement recovery for many patients will take place in the home. Hip replacement patients will likely receive formal physical therapy from home health and/or outpatient physical therapy.
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Value-based Purchasing (VBP) & Medicare Reimbursement
Medicare's Value-Based Purchasing (VBP) became effective for all certified home health agencies on 1/1/2023. Under VBP your Agency's Medicare payments are determined by three conditions: (1) CAHPS - patient satisfaction scores, (2)...
OASIS-E M1306 Pressure Ulcers: Home Health Careplan & Teaching
Any person who is in a bed or chair for 8 hours or longer is at risk for pressure ulcers. Pressure ulcers - also known as bed sores, decubitus ulcers, pressure sores and skin ulcers - often develop in patients with the following conditions: diabetes mellitus, deep venous thrombosis,...
Guidance for OASIS M1041/6 Flu Vaccine
Medicare added the status of a patient's vaccination for influenza (as M1040) in 2009. The answer to "Influenza Vaccine Data Collection Period" (now M1041) is collected at transfer/discharge and discharge but many EMRs - home health software - capture the data on admission, resumption...
Long-Term Anti-Coagulation Therapy? Monitor 2 things...
Home health care patients with atrial fibrillation, deep vein thrombosis, pulmonary embolism and/or artificial heart valves will likely be placed on maintenance anticoagulation therapy to reduce/eliminate blood clots.
