Relias
MAY 6, 2022
The Program for Evaluating Payment Patterns Electronic Report, or PEPPER, contains valuable information to help your hospice organization identify billing issues and prevent improper payment audits. The provider-specific PEPPER analyzes Medicare data and statistics from discharges and services compared with every hospice nationwide.
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OCTOBER 28, 2022
Improved care quality and patient safety, reduced readmissions and ER visits, and lower healthcare costs are just some of the positive outcomes of effective care coordination. Though the benefits are clear, many home health and hospice agencies struggle to optimize coordination. Increased scrutiny in hospices.
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Relias
JUNE 13, 2024
The incidents were not isolated, with 9% of nurses in skilled nursing experiencing workplace violence every week, 6% in long-term care, 3% in home health, 2% in assisted living, and 2% in hospice care. 59% of nurses in home health experienced verbal abuse, and 16% experienced physical assault or abuse.
Relias
AUGUST 15, 2022
But home health leaders have questioned the CMS behavioral adjustment methodology, and National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) President William Dombi called the change “fatally flawed” in a Home Health Care News article. A similar cap was proposed earlier for hospice.
Relias
OCTOBER 7, 2021
“We don’t have the number of employees that it currently takes to meet the care needs of the market.”. In terms of home care aides, the 2020 turnover rate reached 36.5%, according to highlights from a salary report by the National Association for Home Care and Hospice and its survey partner.
Relias
DECEMBER 13, 2021
The increased pressure of the COVID-19 pandemic has presented never-before-seen growth opportunities for home health agencies and their workforce, as Bill Dombi, President of the National Association of Home Care and Hospice (NAHC), noted in a December 2021 webinar titled The State of Home Health.
Relias
FEBRUARY 2, 2023
The 2023 Home Health Final Payment Rule , which the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released in October, increases Medicare payments for home health agencies by 0.7%, or $125 million, compared to 2022. While this seems like a treat, William A.
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