Home Health & Hospice Week
Beware Home Health, Hospice Impact Of Proposed Nursing Home Staffing Minimums
If you think nursing home staffing minimums won’t affect you, think again. A Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services proposed rule aims to establish minimum Registered Nurse and Nurse Aide hours per resident day (HPRD), but not Licensed Practical Nurses/Licensed Vocational Nurses minimums. That means nursing homes will need to hire more nurses and aides and may have to reduce the number of residents in their facilities, expects the National Association for Home Care & Hospice. That could mean even more competition for staff, as well as consequences such as more hospice patients staying in their homes or in hospice facilities, the trade group theorizes. See the 78-page rule at www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2023-09-06/pdf/2023-18781.pdf.
Home Health & Hospice Week
- Value-Based Purchasing:
Leave VBP Baseline Year Right Where It Is, HHAs Urge
Quit moving the Value-Based Purchasing goalposts, commenters tell CMS. Many home health agencies are just [...] - Quality:
Put The Brakes On VBP Quality Measure Changes, Agencies Agree
PPH, Discharge Function measure changes are too much, too soon. The Medicare home health proposed [...] - Mergers & Acquisitions:
Texas-Based Home Health Chain Makes Buy In Illinois
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Overtime Exemption Changes Poised To Hit HH, Hospice Providers In The Wallet
Gauge how much anticipated revisions will cost you. The feds’ new effort to expand overtime [...] - Compliance:
Take These Steps Now To Head Off Overtime Slips Later
You’ve got less than a month to give the DOL your 2 cents. You don’t [...] - Legislation:
Lawmakers Weigh In On Multiple HH & Hospice Hot Topics
Senator shines spotlight on Medicaid access problems. Don’t count the United HealthGroup acquisition of Amedisys [...] - Industry Notes:
Aging Notice Of Admission Glitch Fix Nears
Pointer: Check to make sure the returned claim is actually an error. A payment system [...] - Industry Notes:
No End In Sight For Hospice Service Intensity Add-On Billing Headaches
Billing hassles will not be so easily bypassed for certain SIA add-on scenarios. The problem: [...] - Industry Notes:
Beware Home Health, Hospice Impact Of Proposed Nursing Home Staffing Minimums
If you think nursing home staffing minimums won’t affect you, think again. A Centers for [...] - Industry Notes:
Another Hospice Nurse Imposter Strikes, This Time In Michigan
Don’t let the nurse staffing shortage tempt you into skipping steps on background checks. Case [...] - Industry Notes:
Failure To Meet State Labor Reporting Requirements Costs One Agency Big Time
A California home care providers is shelling out close to six figures to settle labor [...]
