The Home Health Care Wire
Your source for CareVoyant and industry news. April 27, 2022
Home Care Services and Right Software Platform for HHAs
A Home Care Agency providing multiple services faces many challenges to meet disparate operational and regulatory requirements for these services. A software platform that helps the agency meet these challenges will be essential for the efficient operation and growth of the agency.
Care Coordination plays a critical role in improving collaboration, quality of care, and compliance. Home Health Care Agencies need the tools to coordinate care effectively and efficiently to ensure the highest quality and level of service.
A comprehensive, integrated software platform that provides multiple communication tools that are easy to use is essential for effective communication to improve quality of care, patient satisfaction, operational efficiency, and compliance. Home Health Care Agencies should take a holistic view of the communication needs of the agency before selecting a software platform that will meet the communication requirements.
Home Healthcare Industry News
Majority of Home-Based Care Professionals Not Seeing Staffing Improvements
An overwhelming majority of home-based care professionals say that the hiring environment is not improving at the start of 2022.
In a LinkedIn survey conducted by Home Health Care News, 62% of 377 total respondents said the hiring environment is not getting better, while only 21% said it was getting was. About 16% said they were not sure.
Home care providers, brace yourselves for more hits in 2022
It would be an understatement to say that 2022 has not been an easy year for home care providers. Unfortunately, things may get even tougher. I’m talking about an impending regulation on many people’s minds — the home health proposed rule, which is due out around June.
Some signs point to a marginal increase in Medicare payments to home health providers. If the hospice proposed rule is any kind of bellwether, there will be an increase, but it certainly won’t keep up with the strong inflationary pressures home health providers have been dealing with of late. How the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will handle payment around the Patient-Driven Groupings Model also remains to be seen. In last year’s final rule, as you may remember, CMS continued a 4.3% behavioral rate cut adjustment related to PDGM.
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