Home Healthcare Weekly News - May 21, 2020
How to select the right software for Private Duty Nursing Agencies?
Private Duty Nurses (PDNs) work in longer shifts providing long-term care for the same patient creating unique staffing and scheduling challenges. They need to collect and document Vitals and Measurements (Vent Settings, Seizure Logs, etc.), and administer medications and treatments multiple times during the shift. Additionally, meeting Medicaid or Managed Care billing requirements and communications with family members are critical.
These requirements create unique challenges for Private Duty Nursing Home Care Software. However, Most Private Duty Nursing Home Care Agencies are using a software platform designed for visit based Home Health Agencies leading to operational inefficiencies. A software platform specifically designed for Private Duty Nursing Home Care Agencies should be able to meet these unique challenges.
Benefits of using Integrated Electronic Visit Verification for your Home Care Agency
Electronic visit verification was created to reduce fraud and ensure that people receive the documented care they need. EVV was designed to help verify that services billed for home healthcare are for actual visits made. The passing of the Affordable Care Act signed into law in 2010 made provisions for reducing fraud and over-payments, requiring states to stop Medicaid payments to providers when there is credible evidence of fraud.
What is EVV?’
Electronic visit verification (EVV) is a method used to verify home healthcare visits to ensure patients are not neglected and to cut down on fraudulently documented home visits.
With Key Deadline Approaching, Paycheck Protection Program Still ‘Murky’ for In-Home Care Providers
The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) was established by the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act to encourage small businesses to keep workers on staff. Yet despite over a month having passed since the program was implemented, smaller home health and home care companies remain confused about how to employ PPP — and whether they should pursue funds in the first place.
Are Vital Home Health Workers Now A Safety Threat?
Hundreds of thousands of health care workers go into homes around the country to provide vital services for seniors and disabled people. But with rising concerns about the coronavirus and the particular danger it poses for older adults, those workers could be endangering their patients and themselves.
Despite significant roadblocks, the home health industry is getting closer to securing direct reimbursement for visits delivered via telehealth technology, industry insiders believe.
Over the past two few months, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the White House have taken numerous steps to ramp up the use of telehealth services during the COVID-19 emergency. In doing so, federal policymakers hoped to minimize person-to-person contact and preserve stockpiles of personal protective equipment (PPE).
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