Home Health & Hospice Week
CoP Compliance Hinging On LEP Patients Could Be A Challenge, New Study Indicates
How much work will it be to get into compliance with the new requirements for Limited English Proficiency patients in Medicare’s new Home Health Conditions of Participation? Possibly a lot, depending on the language, a new study indicates. Reminder: The new CoPs proposed to take effect in January outline a number of responsibilities for LEP patients, particularly under the Patient Rights section, ranging from furnishing translators to providing documents that are understandable to the patient (see Eli’s HCW, Vol. XXVI, Nos. 15 and 16). A study from New York University and Visiting Nurse Service of New York researchers tracked how many home health visits were provided by registered nurses or physical therapists who spoke the patient’s language, according to a release. About 18 percent of RN visits and 27 percent of PT visits with LEP patients were “language concordant”, researchers found. The highest incidence of language concordant visits was for Korean speakers (31 percent for RNs, 45 percent for PTs) and the lowest of the tracked languages was for Spanish (13 percent for RNs, 12 percent for PTs), says the study funded by the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. See the abstract at http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1084822317696706.
Home Health & Hospice Week
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