Home Health & Hospice Week
CDC Revises Return To Work Guidance — Again
If you’re trying to nail down your policies and procedures for staff returning to work after COVID-19 exposure, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued “interim guidance” on the topic. Organizations should base their decisions on allowing health care personnel (HCP) to return on two options: a test-based strategy or a non-test-based strategy. Option 1: CDC prefers the test-based strategy, which includes checking for resolution of fever and symptoms without medication and “negative results of an FDA Emergency Use Authorized molecular assay for COVID-19 from at least two consecutive nasopharyngeal swab specimens collected 24 hours apart (total of two negative specimens),” it says in an April 13 update. Option 2: If providers can’t use the test-based strategy, they can use the non-test-based strategy, under which HCP must be both fever-free without fever-reducing medications and without symptoms for three days and must be seven days out from the first appearance of symptoms. See more details at www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/return-to-work.html.
Home Health & Hospice Week
- COVID-19:
Make A Judgement Call On NPP Orders
CMS document says NPP orders are OK, but where are the regs? Medicare has provided [...] - Compliance:
Untangle F2F Guidance For Telehealth, NPPs
Watch out: Make sure physician encounters include both audio and visual components. With the regulatory [...] - OASIS:
HHAs, Hospices Need More To Fight COVID-19
From lifting OASIS matching edits to prioritizing in-home workers for PPE, help is falling short. [...] - Hospice:
Rule Reveals More Hospice Election Addendum Details
Check out Medicare’s new model forms. Hospices would love for Medicare to put off the [...] - Regulations:
Model Forms Have These Problems
Do the forms need both related and unrelated diagnoses listed? In conjunction with its 2021 [...] - COVID-19:
PPE For Home Care Workers Grabs Headlines Nationwide
Franchisor launches website to help home care agencies procure PPE. Home health, private duty, and [...] - Industry Note:
Ohio HHAs Can Enter RCD Choices For Next Phase
Cycle 1 ended March 30. Medicare still has the Review Choice Demonstration on “pause” in [...] - Industry Note:
Find Out How Much Medicare Will Pay MA Plans For Hospice
Hospices can get some clues about reimbursement for the Medicare Advantage carve-in, but not the [...] - Industry Note:
CDC Revises Return To Work Guidance — Again
If you’re trying to nail down your policies and procedures for staff returning to work [...] - Industry Note:
MAC Offers New PDGM Tool
For agencies continuing to struggle with mastering the Patient-Driven Groupings Model at the same time [...] - Industry Note:
TPE Resumption Date Remains Cloudy
If you’re wondering when Targeted Probe & Educate medical review will resume, you’re not the [...] - Industry Note:
Hospital-Based Agency Undergoes Change
A home health agency formerly owned by multiple hospitals in Ohio has changed its name. [...]
