Home Health & Hospice Week
Home Health, Hospice Clinicians Hold Strike Vote
Unionization is still alive and well in home health. Case in point: At press time, Providence Home Health and Hospice in Portland, Oregon was undergoing a strike vote. More than 400 frontline clinicians had until June 4 to vote, reports KATU News. About 165 Providence workers have joined the Oregon Nurses Association after a 123-31 vote in April, reports the Northwest Labor Press. Topics at issue are “reasonable workload,” benefits, “constant turnover," and paid leave amount, ONA says in a release. “Many clinicians drained their already below-market vacation accruals to cover repeated COVID exposures and quarantine periods,” ONA says. Providence management and workers have been negotiating for seven months, according to ONA.
Home Health & Hospice Week
- Covid-19:
Start The Countdown To Dropping COVID-19 Vaccination Mandate
New vaccination quality measures may affect Compare, VBP instead of surveys, rule says. Providers wondering [...] - Value-Based Purchasing:
Brace For CAHPS Score Drops Under VBP
Turn this negative into a positive with preemptive action Another sign that Medicare rushed the [...] - Education:
Correct Your OASIS Data Quickly If You Want It To Count For VBP
Plus: Medicare offers 2 new Value-Based Purchasing educational tools. A new month brings a new [...] - Labor Law:
Non-Competes Take Another Drubbing
NLRB head takes a turn targeting the arrangements. Prospects for holding onto your non-competes may [...] - Industry Notes:
Debt Ceiling Legislation Claws Back Unspent COVID Funds
Package spending increase ‘insufficient,’ rep says. The deal to suspend the $31.4 trillion debt ceiling [...] - Industry Notes:
OIG Urges Qui Tam Relators To Step Up
A federal watchdog agency is on the prowl for more whistleblowers. “Whistleblowers are integral to [...] - Industry Notes:
Faulty Inflation Math Means Hospices Should Get 3.7% Pay Bump, Reps Say
It’s not just home health agencies that should receive a positive payment adjustment due to [...] - Industry Notes:
Heed New WHD Clarification On FMLA Calculations
The fate of non-competes isn’t the only thing you have to worry about in the [...] - Industry Notes:
HQRP Intro Materials Get A Facelift
Check out an updated version of Medicare’s Introduction to the Hospice Quality Reporting Program training. [...] - Industry Notes:
Alive Hospice Sale Drama Continues
A longtime nonprofit hospice in Tennessee continues to get flack about a potential sale to [...] - Industry Notes:
Keep Up With Post-PHE Billing Requirements
Don’t forget to fine tune your billing if you’ve been using the CR modifier and [...] - Industry Notes:
Avoid Penalties By Reviewing Medicare Overpayment Basics
Don’t overlook overpayments as a source of risk. According to the Centers for Medicare & [...] - Industry Notes:
HHA Owner Headed To The Slammer
More than 15 months after pleading guilty to Medicare fraud, a Houston home health agency [...] - Industry Notes:
Home Health, Hospice Clinicians Hold Strike Vote
Unionization is still alive and well in home health. Case in point: At press time, [...]
