by Trisha Tulloch, RN, BSN, MSN, HCS-D
With less than three months until OASIS changes again, home health providers are proactively organizing and finalizing OASIS-C training initiatives to provide up-to-date information on critical new and revised assessment items based on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Guidance. Additionally, agency leadership is assessing the impact [...]
In the ever-changing home care environment, there is constant pressure to integrate best practices and processes into all areas of home care operations, especially clinical practice. As Trish Tulloch explains in another article in this issue, with OASIS-C upon us, using best practices affects everything.
Nevertheless, searching the literature and the web for those best practices [...]
HEADLINES Worth A Clinician’s Look – October, 2009
Two new guides on Premixed Insulin Analogues available from AHRQ
Healthcare industry still posting job growth – especially in home care
Have you decided about CAHPS?
Surgical masks proven as effective as N95 respirators in safeguarding healthcare workers – implications for home health clinicians and organizations
2010 OIG Work Plan shows [...]
Congratulations to Ann McCaughan –
First Nurse to Win Frost & Sullivan Lifetime Achievement Award for
North American Remote Patient Monitoring
by Carolyn J. Humphrey, Editor
Ann McCaughan, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Technology Officer of Noninvasive Medical Technologies, Inc. (NMT) is the 2009 Frost & Sullivan Lifetime Achievement Award winner in the category “North American Remote Patient [...]
Home care and hospice can breathe easy for a while, but only about this one issue.
Recovery Audit Contractors (RAC) are limited in the issues they can use to recoup funds from Medicare providers. It is important that all providers learn what those issues are and keep themselves updated as they change.
Initially, RACs may only look [...]
It has just become far more likely that Medicare will take disputed money while healthcare providers pursue payment denial appeals instead of waiting to collect it until a decision has been reached at the end of the process. On September 16, 2009, CMS published a Final Rule implementing Section 935 of the Medicare Prescription Drug, [...]
by Julianne Haydel, RN
Agencies often ask their consultant, “What do we have to do in order to pass survey?” Frankly, a complete answer would be so lengthy it is easier to ask how to flunk one. I can answer that one authoritatively because I have firsthand knowledge on how to completely [...]
