The Home Health Care Wire
Your source for CareVoyant and industry news. June 07, 2023
Right eMAR/eTAR Software for Private Duty Nursing Home Care Agencies
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.
Reimbursement cuts and additional regulatory changes, such as HHVBP, EVV, etc., will continue to create different challenges for Home Health Care Agencies. Reimbursement cuts and regulatory changes are often concentrated in one line of service. CMS has proposed a cumulative $18 Billion cut to Home Health reimbursements over the next decade. While Home Health Care Agencies are finally coming out of the woes posed by COVID-19, potential reimbursement cuts, along with the HHVBP model, have created additional challenges for Home Health agencies. These cuts will have a much higher impact on the agencies providing only Medicare Certified Home Health Services.
Home Healthcare Industry News
Medicare’s plan to cover Alzheimer’s drugs hinges on patient data registries
Medicare Part B will provide coverage for new amyloid-busting Alzheimer’s drugs as soon as the Food and Drug Administration grants traditional (full) approval, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced Thursday morning. Coverage will require clinicians to participate in a patient data registry.
HHVBP Q&As: Impact of OASIS corrections and more
The questions included: Can the Total Performance Score potentially change if a previously submitted OASIS assessment is corrected and resubmitted in iQIES?
The answer appears to be “no.” CMS notes that a corrected OASIS received before the construction of the quality episode, and subsequently the Total Performance Score, then CMS would ignore the erroneous OASIS file. But the corrected data would need to be received before the HHVBP process begins.
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