The Home Health Care Wire
Your source for CareVoyant and industry news.March 7, 2024
Keys to Effective Revenue Cycle Management for Home Care
The Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) process starts at intake and continues through authorization, scheduling, billing, and collections. Home Care Agencies must integrate the RCM process with operations to capture, bill, and collect revenue for all the services provided. Agencies should review the RCM process periodically and adjust the process to accommodate the changes in the patient and payer mix.
Home Care Agencies must leverage technology and software to automate repetitive and time-consuming revenue cycle tasks. Management by Exception throughout the RCM process will help home care agencies to do more with less.
PDN is a challenging field, and Private Duty Nurses face every-day organizational challenges when providing and documenting care for their patients. Private Duty Home Care Software that utilizes a mobile app can improve communication, increase efficiency, enhance accountability, improve patient and nurse satisfaction, increase client engagement, enhance security, and document EVV data.
Mobile apps help agencies improve their operational efficiency, increase nurse job satisfaction, and provide better care to their patients.
The quote "If it is not written down, it did not happen" applies to medical records and clinical documentation. If caregivers do not complete the documentation when they deliver care at the patient's home, the accuracy and completeness of the documentation can decline significantly due to the decrease in the ability of the brain to retain memory over time.
Home Health Care Agencies should provide easy-to-use and intuitive tools to clinicians and caregivers to enable them to complete the documentation at the point of care. Effective clinical documentation improves the agency's operational efficiency while enhancing the quality of care, patient safety, patient satisfaction, and employee satisfaction.
Home Healthcare Industry News
Florida Legislature Unanimously Passes Legislation Expanding Access to Medicaid Home Health Services
The Florida Senate unanimously passed one of HCAF's key policy priorities today by a vote of 40-0, marking the final step in the legislative process toward enabling advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) and physician assistants (PAs) to order and receive reimbursement for Medicaid-funded home health services.
Why Home Care Leaders Are Now Banking On ‘Caregiver-First’ Cultures
This strategic move reflects a growing recognition of the critical role caregivers play, and aims to address persistent caregiver shortages.
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