The Home Health Care Wire
Your source for CareVoyant and industry news. July 27, 2022
Home Health OASIS-E Changes – Is Your Software Ready?
The software platform will play a critical role in helping Home Health Agencies to implement OASIS-E changes. Agencies should check with their software vendors to understand their plans to accommodate OASIS-E, make sure their plan will meet the requirements, and adjust their process accordingly.
This blog reviews the functions needed to support your transition to OASIS-E.
CMS introduced OASIS-E changes for Home Health Agencies to meet the requirements of the IMPACT Act and improve interoperability among the post-acute continuum. After delaying the implementation of OASIS-E changes due to the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency, CMS has announced that Home Health Agencies should implement OASIS-E changes by January 1, 2023. Home Health Agencies should understand the extent of OASIS-E changes.
In this blog, we will review OASIS-E changes, their impact of these changes, and how the agencies should prepare for these changes.
Private Duty Nursing is different from your traditional home health as it requires skilled care for medically fragile patients. The care is typically provided in longer shifts from 8 to 12 hours and for a limited number of patients over a longer period of time. In the Private Duty Nursing field, the nurse or LPN gets to know the patient as a person and can really become quite attached to their patient. The care provided can be in multiple settings such as the patient's home, school, or even a group home setting.
The unique nature of private duty nursing necessitates specific software features.
Home Healthcare Industry News
CMS Releases First-Ever HCBS Quality Measure Set
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is releasing the first-ever home- and community-based services (HCBS) quality measure set to promote consistent quality measurement within and across state Medicaid HCBS programs. The measure set is intended to provide insight into the quality of HCBS programs and enable states to measure and improve health outcomes for people relying on long-term services and support (LTSS) in Medicaid. The agency said in a press release that release of this voluntary measure set is also a critical step to promoting health equity among the millions of older adults and people with disabilities who need LTSS because of disabling conditions and chronic illnesses.
The Key Problems with Medicare’s Home Health Benefit
Home-based care services are a crucial element of medical care.
Despite this fact, issues surrounding accessibility have hindered the Medicare home health benefit’s ability to be effective, a new report published in Health Affairs suggests.
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