The Home Health Care Wire
Your source for CareVoyant and industry news. June 14, 2023
Six Steps to Improve Clinician Utilization for Home Health Care Agencies
Improving operational efficiency in intake, scheduling, clinical documentation, and quality assurance will improve clinician utilization, quality of care, and the bottom line of Home Healthcare Agencies.
In this blog, we will discuss the six steps home health care agencies can take to improve the utilization of clinicians' time. Home Health Care Agencies should look for an integrated Home Health Care Software platform to provide the right tools to enhance clinicians' productivity.
Private Duty Nursing Home Care Agencies should leverage technology and use the right Home Health Care EMR software to manage medication and treatment administration. The trend in healthcare is to look for opportunities to provide more skilled care at patients' homes. Using the right EMR software platform will help home healthcare agencies to take advantage of this growing trend.
This blog will discuss some essential features a Home Care Software should have to efficiently manage, administer, and document medications and treatments while providing continuous care at a patient's home.
HCBS and Private Duty Non-Medical Home Care Agencies should leverage technology and intelligent automation to improve scheduling efficiency. Improving scheduling efficiency will positively impact many aspects of agency operations. A Home Care Software platform with efficient scheduling tools will improve the operational efficiency of HCBS and Private Duty Non-Medical Home Care Agencies.
This blog will discuss some of the vital scheduling features required in the software to improve the scheduling efficiency of HCBS and Non-Medical Home Care Agencies.
Home Healthcare Industry News
New Senate Bill Could Make Offering Palliative Care Easier For Home Health Agencies
A group of lawmakers have rolled out a new Senate bill that would direct the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) to develop a palliative care-specific payment model demonstration. The bill is dubbed the Expanding Access to Palliative Care Act. Sens. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.), John Barrasso (R-Wy.), Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.) and Deb Fischer (R-Neb.) are sponsoring the legislation.
Where, When And Why Home Health Billing Fraud Becomes Obvious
A new comprehensive study is shining a light on potential factors that have led to home health billing fraud over the years. Among other findings, researchers at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine concluded that home health agencies that share patients across multiple agencies, and those that had high rates of expenditures across hospital referral regions (HRRs), were more likely to commit fraud than others.
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