A Beginner's Guide to Home Health Billing
Home Health billing is full of detail and can be frustrating. Submitting claims to different payers takes ALOT of time because each payer has lots of rules and terms for which - for a new home health biller - will be unfamiliar. Your software will only HELP you submit claims but you...
9 Differences Between LPNs and RNs
The essentials of nursing are the same for both LPNs and RNs. Both care for people who are suffering from illness and injury, providing medical and functional assistance to help them live as pain-free and as comfortable as possible, and hopefully move forward in their journey toward...
Peripherally Inserted Central Catheter (PICC) Assessment & Careplan
A peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC) is used for patients needing venous access for I.V. fluids, long-term antibiotics, chemotherapy, or total parental nutrition (TPN). A PICC is also used for drawing blood.
OASIS M2020 Oral Medications: Medicare Guidance
In-home medication management includes assessing the patient's ability to self-manage oral medications. Use Medicare's own guidance & strategies for completing OASIS (M2020) Management of Oral Medications: the patient's current ability to prepare and take all oral medications reliably...
Can Your Governing Body Answer These 10 Questions?
Medicare's Conditions of Participation (CoP) requires a Home Health Governing Body that must oversee hundreds of policies and procedures to monitor and regulate infection control, quality assurance, fiscal performance and accounting, emergency preparedness, employee credentials and...
OASIS Guidance: M1600 UTI in the Past 14 Days?
Medicare requires HHAs to monitor for healthcare-associated infections (HAI) as part of its overall Quality Assurance Performance Improvement (QAPI) initiative. Medicare’s Condition of Participation (§484.70 Condition of participation: Infection prevention and control) requires HHAs to...
6 Best Practices for Home Health Aides & Medications
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Long-Term Steroid Use? Teach Five (5) Things
Corticosteroids, or just steroids, can be prescribed for a wide-range of conditions. For patients with cancer, steroids can be prescribed for the following reasons:
- Increase potency and effectiveness of some chemotherapy agents
- Reduce nausea and vomiting caused by chemotherapy
- ...
