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How Emerging Hospice Regulations Could Impact Providers

Hospice News

The report rocked the industry when it found that roughly 20% of hospices surveyed by regulators or accreditors between 2012 and 2016 had a deficiency that posed a serious safety risk. Common errors include billing for GIP services when hospice patients did not need this level of care.

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Forcura Partners with AlayaCare to Support the Entire Home-based Care Market

AlayaCare

Since its founding in 2012, Forcura and its technology innovations have supported agencies and providers across the home-based care sector in a variety of ways. For example, agencies and providers can digitally manage the workflow of patient documentation and new client onboarding and centralize all digital and physical documentation.

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The Rise of Malpractice Claims Against NPs

Daily Nurse

percent of all claims in the 2022 dataset, compared to 13 percent in the 2012 dataset. NSO and CNA’s Nurse Practitioner Claim Report revealed that in the 2022 dataset, 66 percent of all claims involved NPs specializing in family and adult-gerontology primary care. For example, claims that resolved for over $500,000 represented 21.5

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CSI Academy Teams to Focus on Implementing HWE Standards

Daily Nurse

AACN Clinical Scene Investigator (CSI) Academy is a unit-based program using implementation science to leverage direct care nurses’ expertise and build additional skills, preparing and supporting them as clinician leaders who effect positive changes that improve patient, nurse, and hospital outcomes. We aim to change that.”

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Top Home Health Nurse Documentation Updates for 2022 That Actually Affect Your Paycheck

The Productive Home Health Nurse

What a year for home health nurse documentation and nurses… Our COVID song continues…. PDGM has taken over home health nurse documentation…. Home health nurse documentation timeframes are on speed…. We started the year with PDGM or the Patient-Driven Group Model as our new payment system. billion in 2012.

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Risks Facing Nurse Practitioners Today

Minority Nurse

Nurse practitioners (NPs) have a great deal of responsibility regarding patient care, and as the healthcare landscape evolves, so do the daily risks NPs face. Nurse practitioner malpractice data can be used to inform and address areas of clinical improvement as well as help to improve the quality of care and patient safety.

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OIG’s Hospice GIP Audit Fueled by Inappropriate Billing; Nearly One-Third of Claims Have Errors

Hospice News

Increased regulatory and clinical oversight is needed to address common billing and documentation errors related to hospice general inpatient care, according to the U.S. For example, in some cases hospices incorrectly bill for GIP services when patients do not have uncontrolled or unmanaged symptoms, the regulatory agency stated.

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