Home Health Trial: A Success
A group of physicians and nurses are working with patients at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, MA to fine tune a pilot program that avoids hospitalizations altogether. Patients were …
Home Health Quality Assurance: 2018 COP Requirements
The new COPs require a heavy data driven QAPI program that agencies can utilize as justification of care and the defense of having a home health license to operate. However, …
Humana Kindred Merger
Humana along with two undisclosed private equity groups have partnered to purchase the home health agency segment of Kindred. The long term care, nursing homes and specialty hospitals will be …
Medicaid Work Requirement
Ten states have requested and been granted permission from CMS to require certain able-bodied Medicaid recipients to work in exchange for benefits. In what might be a shocking surprise to …
HIPAA Compliance: Texting Regulation and Guidance
Almost all home health agencies have one thing in common: staff text each other about patients. But the methods in which they text each other has now created a new …
Home Health Conditions of Participation Go Live!
Welcome 2018 … and welcome new Medicare Conditions of Participation (COPs). While many set goals for the New Year and hope for success, many agencies are following one basic mantra: …