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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OASIS M1840 - Guidelines for Assessing Toilet Transferring
MyHomecareBiz recommends the following Medicare guidelines for completing OASIS M1840 Toilet Transferring:
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
- ...
Emergency Preparedness: 6 Practical Steps for Daily HHA Management
We're on the the third anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic. The events that began in early 2020 would be the first time that many HHAs would enact the emergency preparedness plan that is required by Medicare's §484.102 Condition of participation: Emergency preparedness.
Below is a...
Home Health CoPs: Emergency Preparedness Checklist
In January 2018 Medicare made multiple changes to the language of the condition regarding Emergency Preparedness §484.102. Medicare also created an exception to emergency preparedness testing and drills: if the HHA experiences an emergency - that requires activation of the emergency...
Does Your Annual Meeting Include These 11 (Required) Items?
Medicare's Conditions of Participation (CoP) requires an HHA's Governing Body to regularly evaluate the policies and procedures that regulate the Agency's:
- Agency-wide risk management
- Patient-specific risk management
- Emergency Preparedness
- Employee Management: continuing education,...
PDGM Home Health Billing: Significant Change in Condition (SCIC)
The home health conditions of participation (CoPs) require that agencies update and revise the current OASIS assessment under the following conditions:
(1) The last 5 days of every 60 days if the patient is to be 're-certified', unless there is a beneficiary-elected transfer,
(2) a...
