Home Health & Hospice Week
Home Care Aides Aging With Their Clients
You may worry about the aging of your aide workers, but that's just how your clients may like it. More than a quarter of aides are 55 or older, a share expected to rise to a third by 2020, reported National Public Radio in its Morning Edition broadcast. The show profiled an 80-year-old aide taking care of an 86-year-old patient. "A number of our clients will ask for a more mature worker," Marla Lahat, who heads Home Care Partners in Washington, D.C., told the program. "Sometimes they're a little bit afraid of the younger generation, and they know that a worker that's closer to their age is somebody that they feel more comfortable with and more trusting." Older workers have lower turnover, the segment added.
Home Health & Hospice Week
- Hospice:
Quality Reporting Burdens May Sink Small Hospices
Hospice providers give CMS an earful on quality reporting proposals.Hospices are hoping to see a [...] - Quality:
Hospices Protest 'Comfortable Dying' Details
Some patients should be excluded from this new quality reporting measure, providers tell CMS.You should [...] - Strategy:
Challenges Bring Opportunity For Home Care
Now's the time to advocate for your industry.For home care providers, it's an increasingly difficult [...] - Coverage:
Lawsuit Settlement May Swell Your Patient Rolls
Agreement in class action suit should torpedo improvement criteria.Get ready to do away with the [...] - Industry Note:
Background Checks May Cut Aide Misdeeds Up To 20%
Many nursing home aides with findings of neglect, abuse, or theft have previous criminal history, [...] - Industry Note:
Hit ADR Deadlines Or Throw Away Cash
Don't be late in responding to additional development requests, or you could be very sorry.That's [...] - Industry Note:
MAC Targets Claims With 5-7 Visits
Make sure your documentation for episodes that barely exceed the LUPA threshold will stand up [...] - Industry Note:
Watch Out For New Claims Requirement
You'd better be sure your beneficiaries' names and HICN numbers match what's in the Com-mon [...] - Industry Note:
Lawmakers Look For 'Doc Fix' Funds
Hold onto your wallets -- Congress expects to approve a potentially reimbursement-draining "doc fix" before the [...] - Industry Note:
Home Care Aides Aging With Their Clients
You may worry about the aging of your aide workers, but that's just how your [...] - Industry Note:
Hospital Sells Hospice Unit In Georgia
Hutcheson Medical Center in Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., will sell its hospice unit, Hutche-son Hospice, to [...] - Industry Note:
Home Care Fraudster Earns Decade Jail Term
A Miami HHA owner has received a 10-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to Medicare [...] - Industry Note:
Man Pleads Guilty To Medicaid Fraud In MN
A Minneapolis-area man has pled guilty to half a million dollars in Medicaid fraud. Through [...] - Industry Note:
U.S. Attorney Drops Kickback Charge In TN
The U.S. Attorney's Office in Nashville has dropped its temporary restraining order against Friendship Home [...]
