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Post-Acute Care and Home Health Care
What happen to the Acute-Care organization's Discharge Planners and the Post-Acure Care Home Health Care Community Liaison? These roles have disappeared to be replace ....
CMS Quality Measurements Projects and the Goals
CMS is presently developing outcome core measures that are patient oriented and cross providers setting during the continuum of care.
CMS Moratorium Extended!
CMS Moratorium extended! in the following geographical areas...
Quality Management Role For The Betterment of Your Agency
The Quality Manager can be a catalytic agent between departments in your organization. A Quality Manager in a strategic position in an organization can help improve revenues in multiple ways. Identifying processes assigned to staff ....
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Home Health Value-Based Purchasing Program (HHVBPP) Pilot Program
Preliminary and final reports are available at the Value Based Portal site!
Can a home health agency provide care to a patient in a Day Care?
A patient that qualifies for the home health benefit under Medicare...
CMS Auditors
There are multiple points in the CMS reimbursement loop for home care agencies to receive denials from RACs Audits. One of those is failing respond to Palmetto GBA auto request for copies of medical records for review because the organization does n
CMS Face to Face Requirements After January 2016
Denials based on incompletion of the Face to Face Requirements continue to cause major strain to the home health industry...
The Role of Clinical Manager in a Medicare Home Health Agency
Clinical Manager oversees the care of patients, clinical staff and uses Evidence Base Practice (EBP) to improve patient outcomes and controls overutilization of services. The Home Health Quality Improvement Initiative provides free written and video educational materials based on EBP for clinicians and patients that can be use by the home health agency. Clinicians can utilize the information to provide consistent care that will lead to improve patient outcomes in targeted diseases as CHF, Diabetes, HTN, and Pneumonia.
Maintaining Educational Materials
Educational Materials for clinicians can be utilized for educational in-service which will help to meet accreditation bodies requirements and reduce education cost. Medication mismanagement is a very important issue for patients in the community, which according to the literature it one of the common causes of re-hospitalization. For more information visit FDA Click Here
