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The following is from Home Health Line. For more news and information on home health and hospice, visit homehealthline.decisionhealth.com. Agencies should educate staff and patients now to ensure compliance with new complaint process expectations outlined in the revised Home Health Conditions of Participation (CoPs). There’s plenty of work to do between training and tweaking certain […]
The following is republished with permission from the author, Melissa Bailey, Kaiser Health News. Nothing seemed to help the patient — and hospice staff didn’t know why. They sent home more painkillers for weeks. But the elderly woman, who had severe dementia and incurable breast cancer, kept calling out in pain. The answer came when […]
The revised home health Conditions of Participation (CoPs) have been delayed, but that doesn’t mean agency preparations should be. Compliance with the new patient rights provisions within the revised Home Health Conditions of Participation (CoPs) will cost the industry about $147 million and require 2 million hours of time. You need to start preparing […]
by: Josh Poltilove The following is from Home Health Line. For more news and information on home health and hospice, visit homehealthline.decisionhealth.com. CMS has once again extended its moratoria on new home health agencies and new branches of existing home health agencies by six months in six metropolitan areas. The moratoria — which covers the […]
by: Josh Poltilove The following is from Home Health Line. For more news and information on home health and hospice, visit homehealthline.decisionhealth.com. In the short term, CMS plans to reduce home health agencies’ payments by 0.4% next year. In the long term, CMS plans to drastically redesign the way agencies are paid beginning in 2019. […]
LeadingAge’s annual survey to rank and analyze the nation’s 150 largest nonprofit senior living providers found that EHR adoption in these facilities is taking the lead compared to other long-term and post-acute care (LTPAC) providers. The survey, released at the end of 2016, found an 80% adoption rate among survey participants, which is a 5% […]
A bipartisan bill was introduced to the House on July 11 that would pay older adults $75 to put together a living will. If passed, CMS would pay Medicare beneficiaries upon completion of an advanced directive so that wishes for medical treatment in the event the patient cannot direct treatment him or herself results. […]
A June 2017 study published in the Journal of Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine (JAMDA) concludes that patients discharged from skilled nursing facilities to the home who had a home visit to within a week of discharge had less of a chance for being readmitted to the hospital within 30 days. The study looked […]
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the final Market Stabilization rule on Thursday, April 13, to help lower premiums and stabilize individual and small group markets and increase choices for Americans. Individuals obtaining coverage in the Marketplace created by the Affordable Care Act have faced double-digit premium increases, fewer plans to choose […]
The American Health Care Act long debated by opposing parties, healthcare providers and government entities otherwise known as “repeal and replace of Obamacare” was pulled Friday as a result of the bill’s failure to gain enough votes to pass. LeadingAge says they are pleased with these results, as “This measure is deeply flawed, especially with […]