Advance Directives
In the event that a person cannot make decisions for themself, an advance care directive is a legal document to express their values, goals for care, and treatment preferences to guide future decisions about health care. Advance directives allow a patient to identify who they want to make decisions on their behalf when they cannot […]
The Importance of an Accurate Discharge Review
With any stage of care, accuracy within the documentation is key to showing the condition of the patient and the care provided. The accuracy of the discharge review is just as important as all other OASIS reviews. While accurate documentation begins at the Start of Care (SOC), do not make the mistake of underestimating the […]
Improving Employee Engagement in the Workplace
Bootstrapping is a thing of the Past Have you ever told someone that they need to pull up the bootstraps? Chances are if you are older than 40 years of age, you have said that to someone. I believe talent can only take you so far and then it comes down to hard work. […]
Clinician Home Health Documentation Ownership
What is OASIS? Whether a person has worked in the home health industry for 10 days or 10 years, it is likely that they know OASIS is the main star of the universe that everything else revolves around. It can be very intimidating for clinicians to navigate OASIS documentation. OASIS is an acronym for […]
Improving home health star ratings
What is the importance of accuracy in home health coding and OASIS and how does that impact outcomes and star ratings? Accuracy in home health coding and OASIS are extremely important as there are many factors that are impacted by how a record is coded and how the OASIS items are scored. One common […]
Home Health Certification and Plan of Care Billing 101
Medicare requires a home health certification and plan of care to be compliant and for reimbursement. Creating the plan and its follow up can be complicated. The plan of care should match the documentation within the OASIS. It can take hours of time and energy to be compliant. Many agencies are looking for innovative […]
Home Health Rulemaking Process: How to Affect CMS Policies
How to Comment on the Home Health Proposed Rule The rulemaking process is what occurs to finalize a Proposed Rule. For Medicare, CMS is the agency that proposes a rule and a rule can contain many new regulations. CMS puts the rule out via the Federal Register so that it can be reviewed by […]
The Home Health PPS Proposed and 2022 Final Rule Changes Explained
Changes aplenty. Will you be ready? This (CY2022) being year 2 under PDGM, there are numerous changes in the CY2022 HH PPS Proposed Rule; most having to do with HH PPS (see § II of the Proposed Rule) and the HHVBP Model (see §III), which I will discuss in this post. There are other changes […]
Home Health Wound Care: What Every Agency Needs to Know
This blog captures the conversation Home Health Revealed had with Katherine Piette and Alicia Jenkins from Corstrata. In this blog, we discuss a topic in home health that has become a $40 billion problem: wound care. Alicia serves as Corstrata’s Clinical Director for Provider Services; she has over 20 years of experience as a wound […]
Free PDGM Training: How to Be Successful in Home Health Under PDGM
PDGM became effective 1/01/20 and significantly changed how we operate in Medicare Home Health. New Cost Centers were developed, additional discipline data needed to be tracked, billing fundamentals, and coding changed dramatically. And now, CMS is proposing to expand the Home Health Value-Based Model – nationwide. How should a Home Health Agency respond? Learn […]