Home Health & Hospice Week
West Virginia Leads In Hospice PEPPER Downloads, While Utah Trails Last. Where Does Your State Stand?
If you aren't sure how to best use your newly updated hospice PEPPER report and missed Medicare's WebEx on the free benchmarking report, you're in luck. You won't have to wait long to be able to view a recording of the video conference, PEPPER contractor TMF Health Quality Institute says. "The session will be recorded and posted on PEPPERresources.org in the hospice 'Training and Resources' section by May 10," TMF says in a release. Meanwhile, check out the newly updated PEPPER retrieval map to see how many hospices have downloaded their new reports. At press time, the state with the highest retrieval rate since April 6 was West Virginia, where 17 of 20 hospices have downloaded the reports for an 85 percent rate. The state with the lowest rate was Utah with 12 of 86 reports downloaded for a 14 percent rate. See the map at www.pepperresources.org/Training-Resources/Hospices/PEPPER-Portal-Retrieval-Map.
Home Health & Hospice Week
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CoP Changes To Competency Evals For Aides Put HHAs At Survey Risk
Are your patients willing to be bathing guinea pigs? More than four months into implementation [...] - Compliance:
Know Your Aide Competency Requirements
Observation is required for these subject areas. Under §484.80 Condition of participation: Home health aide [...] - Hospice:
Prepare To Get More Detailed In Your Hospice Cost Report
Note this big change to reporting drug costs. Newly released hospice cost report revisions may [...] - Finance:
Report Costs For These Lines, Or Else
New Level 1 edits make these cost report lines mandatory. Without costs recorded on these [...] - Regulations:
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New option applies to all providers' reports. To take advantage of Medicare's new electronic signature [...] - Industry Note:
Weigh Your M1060 Options Carefully
Using previous measurement as last resort. For the first time since April 2016, Medicare has [...] - Industry Note:
West Virginia Leads In Hospice PEPPER Downloads, While Utah Trails Last. Where Does Your State Stand?
If you aren't sure how to best use your newly updated hospice PEPPER report and [...] - Industry Note:
Medicare Home Health Spending To Climb 78% In Next Decade, CBO Predicts
Position yourself to benefit from growth in Medicare home health spending. The Congressional Budget Office [...] - Industry Note:
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