Home Health & Hospice Week

CMS's background check program for HHAs, hospices is running in 10 states so far. How tight are your criminal background check policies and procedures? Now's the time to double check. For the first time, L795 was in the list of top 10 tags cited in hospice surveys, said Kim Roche with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, at the National Association for Home Care & Hospice's March on Washington conference March 28. L795 is the tag for the first part of the criminal background check standard: "The hospice must obtain a criminal background check on all hospice employees who have direct patient contact or access to patient records. Hospice contracts must require that all contracted entities obtain criminal background checks on contracted employees who have direct patient contact or access to patient records." And background checks aren't just a hospice issue. CMS is hard at work on the National [...]