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Columbia Nursing Study Demonstrates the Need for Verbal Communication Data in Home Health Care

Daily Nurse

The team reformulated the risk model to include three essential components: structured data from the Outcome and Assessment Information Set (OASIS), clinical notes, and verbal communication features. The post Columbia Nursing Study Demonstrates the Need for Verbal Communication Data in Home Health Care first appeared on Daily Nurse.

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What Hospices Can Learn from Home Health Agencies on New Program Integrity Rules

Hospice News

The earlier experiences of home health providers informed those recommendations as well. “We We borrowed from the experiences in home health with the proposals that we advanced the CMS including the 36-month rule, So if we see the hospice rules have an impact like the home health ones, then it will do its job,” Dombi said.

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Attorney Ari Markenson: 36-Month Rule Will Have Cooling Effect on Hospice Deals

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The 36-month rule, when it was implemented for home health really had a significant impact on a very specific type of potential program integrity issue in home health. Home health has been and still is a very easy health care provider type for entrepreneurs to sort of enter the marketplace.

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Post-PHE Hospice Regulation: How Telehealth Rules Will Change

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These flexibilities were set to end with the PHE in May, but were recently extended until August 9, 2023, to allow hospice and other health care providers more time to get their electronic systems up to speed. This means protecting private patient health information will be even more crucial to telehealth compliance, Lund Person said. “If

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Health Systems Pursue Palliative Care Skill-Building Initiatives

Hospice News

Quality data can help health care leaders across the continuum visualize the return on investment of growing palliative care training initiatives/partnerships, according to Brynn Bowman, CEO of the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC). She is also president-elect of the Case Management Society of America in Detroit, Michigan.

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Mourning Dove Medical CEO Dr. Kaishauna Guidry: Physicians Need a Framework for Understanding Hospice

Hospice News

I’m curious as to how that learning experience may have informed your approach to educating others about hospice. For example, a patient may be hospice-eligible, but they may come on to home health because that’s all they know about. You came to it with some of those same misconceptions that others have.

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Hospice News ELEVATE : Fireside Chat with Netsmart

Hospice News

As you’re thinking about not only working with referral sources and other providers and facilities, they may start asking you for information about it, even if you’re not participating in it. You need to be able to use that information to then bring it forward and tell a story. It needs to be able to tell a story.

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