Hospice News

OCTOBER 19, 2023

We had a lot of this in home health, and now it’s hospice’s turn to be scrutinized. Documentation errors are definitely one of the top reasons why it brings regulatory attention to a hospice’s doorstep. This seems to go in waves. Ultimately, that results in clinician satisfaction and clinician retention.

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The Productive Home Health Nurse

AUGUST 10, 2020

It took me 2 long months to get an understanding of the OASIS nursing note and another 2 weeks or so before I figured out how to speak the “Medicare language”. A lot of what goes into writing your OASIS nursing note that speaks to Medicare and gets you paid is the FOUNDATION and road map. I know exactly how that feels!

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Home Care Pulse

AUGUST 16, 2022

And I entered home health pretty quickly as a young therapist and realized, oh my gosh, what a magnificent line of service that was really as best kept secret in the Medicare world. And then if you think underneath that, there’s Medicare certified home health, palliative, and hospice, that really kind of sits in the home.

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Home Care Pulse

OCTOBER 11, 2022

So it’s funny, like explaining what Oasis E is to someone who doesn’t understand home health gets really tricky, but in just making notes, like for this podcast, I kind of keyed the term, the data document. And if you work in home health, you know, that book backwards and forwards. That’s a lot of pages.

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Home Care Pulse

JUNE 27, 2023

Michelle Cone ( 03:28 ): So, you know, at its most basic level, it really allows home care agencies to monitor and promote the quality of care that they provide to their clients with actual quantitative data. Now, for those of us in home care, you know, we know original Medicare is not a payer for us. We hear that all the time.

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Home Care Pulse

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

And then I transitioned to clinical education first at the local level, and then at, at a corporate level for a, uh, national, uh, home health company. Well, for anyone who is around in home health in 1998, <laugh> Dinosaur years, um, Medicare did one of its reimbursement cuts.

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The Productive Home Health Nurse

AUGUST 28, 2021

To place quantities to all of this text, the number of agencies providing home health care in the United States grew from 8,314 in 2005 to 12,613 in 2013 with Medicare expenditures for home health care services alone nearly doubling from 9.7 home health spending officially hit $102.2 billion in 2012.

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The Productive Home Health Nurse

AUGUST 28, 2021

To place quantities to all of this text, the number of agencies providing home health care in the United States grew from 8,314 in 2005 to 12,613 in 2013 with Medicare expenditures for home health care services alone nearly doubling from 9.7 home health spending officially hit $102.2 billion in 2012.

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