Home Health & Hospice Week
Hospice Teams With Nursing School
If you’re in need of more hospice staff, you may want to take a page from one Texas provider’s playbook. AlēvCare Hospice has partnered with the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Nursing to provide “didactic classroom education as well as opportunities for the students to make observational visits with AlēvCare Hospice nurses during patient visits in the local community,” the Mansfield-based hospice says in a release. “As we educate our future nurses, it is important for students to be exposed to the many practice settings of nursing across the community,” says TTHUSC School of Nursing Dean Tiffani Wise in the release. “Partnering with AlēvCare Hospice provides a great opportunity for students to experience hospice and end-of-life care firsthand.”
Home Health & Hospice Week
- Regulations:
CMS Can — And Should — Do Better On Wage Index
Rule commenters chastise Medicare officials for discriminatory wage index procedures. Medicare is taking millions out [...] - Reimbursement:
This Unfair Wage Index Advantage For Hospitals Needs To Go — Pronto
Policy is penalizing HHAs, expert points out. Even before the recent big wage index area [...] - Mergers & Acquisitions:
Private Equity-Backed Regional Chain Makes Buy In Southeast
Plus: Hospitals figure in recent market developments. A three-state hospice chain is enlarging its reach [...] - Fraud & Abuse:
FBI Raids Tennessee Home Care Provider
Plus: One codefendant pleads guilty while another pleads innocent in Boston. Many home health agencies’ [...] - Value-Based Purchasing:
Latest VBP FAQs Lays Groundwork For Switching Base Year To 2022
Plus: Don’t miss new VBP educational materials in the rush. Home health agencies are waiting [...] - HIPAA:
Sidestep HIPAA Audit Dangers By Mixing It Up
Outside and inside perspectives are both valuable, expert says. Question: We take HIPAA very seriously, [...] - Industry Notes:
COVID Vax Mandate Develops Along With The Science
One popular religious exemption may no longer be valid. A Wisconsin health system is telling [...] - Industry Notes:
Explore MR Reopening Option
If you let a medical review records request slip past you, you may have a [...] - Industry Notes:
Staff Squeeze Slowly Lifts For Some
Not everyone shares the view that the home health staffing situation is the worst it’s [...] - Industry Notes:
Telehealth Codes Coming Too Slowly
Medicare needs to get with the program and create procedure codes for hospices to bill [...] - Industry Notes:
Next HQRP Forum Is Sept. 28
You can find out more about the 2023 hospice final rule that takes effect next [...] - Industry Notes:
Hospital Sheds HH Business
Madison Medical Center in Fredericktown, Missouri, is closing down its home health business. Staffing shortages [...] - Industry Notes:
Hospice Teams With Nursing School
If you’re in need of more hospice staff, you may want to take a page [...] - Industry Notes:
Examine Your Telehealth For This
Don’t turn a blind eye to health inequities regarding telehealth. New guidance from the feds [...]
