Home Health & Hospice Week
Assessments, Quality Improvement Focus Of New VBP Tools
A couple of new Value-Based Purchasing educational tools may help you boost your performance, right when you need it most. The latest VBP Strategies for Success topic is clinical assessment. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services offers a “Clinical Assessment Involves All Required Disciplines” briefing card on the topic, “which follows an SBAR (situation, background, assessment, and recommendation) format, leading to a recommendation on how an HHA can address opportunities for improvement,” CMS notes in the latest VBP Newsletter. See the VBP briefing card compendium online at www.cms.gov/priorities/innovation/media/document/hhvbp-exp-briefing-card-compendium. And CMS is offering new quality improvement tools related to panel discussions — the Home Health Agency Perspectives series and the Home Health Agency Perspectives on Innovation panel and accompanying written resource. Find them under the QI section at www.cms.gov/priorities/ innovation/innovation-models/expanded-home-health-value-based-purchasing-model.
Home Health & Hospice Week
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2024 Final HH Rule Clears The Path For Further PDGM Cuts
This year’s reimbursement relief, inadequate as it is, may not last long, experts predict. Home [...] - Reimbursement:
Follow These 4 Tips To Counter Future PDGM Rate Cuts
How clean is your data? What can home health agencies do with the threat of [...] - Hospice:
Hospices Are Off The Hook For MHC, MFT Interdisciplinary Group Members — Mostly
Keep an eye peeled for interpretive guidance on the topic. Hospices have caught a much [...] - Kickbacks:
Now’s The Time To Lay the Groundwork For Holiday Gifting Compliance
Prepare now, before the full holiday rush hits. With Halloween in the rearview mirror and [...] - Compliance:
Take These 6 Steps To Protect Yourself Against Gifting Violations
Don’t let common gift-giving practices get you into hot water. Reduce your risk during the [...] - Coverage:
MedPAC Puts Hospice Under The Microscope
Nonhospice spending gets another go-round. Hospices may feel they’ve been examined six ways to Sunday [...] - Industry Notes:
Review Choice Demo Contractor To Become Quicker On The Draw With PCR Resubmissions
Start date for sixth state is almost here. As the Review Choice Demonstration expands, one [...] - Industry Notes:
Tune In To Forthcoming Webinar To Hear CMS Review Hospice Provisions Of Home Health Final Rule
If you have questions about the hospice provisions in the 2024 home health final rule, [...] - Industry Notes:
HHAs Will Become Responsible For Covering This Wound Supplies Code In The New Year
Add one more code to the home health bundling list, starting Jan. 1. A9272 (Wound [...] - Industry Notes:
Assessments, Quality Improvement Focus Of New VBP Tools
A couple of new Value-Based Purchasing educational tools may help you boost your performance, right [...]
