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Home Health CoPs Update: New Opportunities for OTs

Relias

There’s a new opportunity for occupational therapists practicing in home health settings. During her presentation, Vance explained the progression of rules allowing therapists to conduct the home health admission visit. Better outcomes can improve a home health agency’s quality measures and star rating.

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Guest Post: Interview with Author of Breakdown: A Clinician’s Experience in a Broken System of Emergency Psychiatry

Bipolar Bandit

The states primarily funded these hospitals through taxes until the Medicaid program was created in 1965. The IMD Exclusion must be repealed because it is the main reason that inpatient psychiatric hospitals have eliminated so many beds. In the 1950s, state hospitals provided respite and asylum for the mentally ill population.

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Chicago students are in crisis. Here’s how we can help them heal.

Brightpoint

In addition to offering on-site mental health services, our therapists have cultivated community partnerships to help Schubert students and their families obtain food, diapers, and access to Medicaid and work permits. Combined, mental health services and assistance with practical needs help children thrive at home and school.

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What I Learned About Navigating the Mental Health System

Beautiful Voyager

I have been through a series of around thirty medications, plenty of therapists, psychologists, psychiatrists’ doctors, drug infusions, and even electric shock. I begin looking further into more advanced rehabs, but research has shown me that I couldn’t find one mental rehabilitation center that accepted Medicaid or Medicare in the US.

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Importance of Image and Respect for Home Health Recruitment and Retention

Relias

An unintended, but positive offshoot of the pandemic is that the crisis highlighted home health’s “very quick and successful adjustments” and “versatility” to serve COVID-19 patients and millions of others served under Medicare, Medicaid, Veterans Administration, and other services.

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Home Health Specializations Boost Performance, Bottom Line

Relias

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is planning to implement the Home Health Value-Based Purchasing (HHVBP) model nationwide in 2023. Positioning your agency to capitalize on the higher reimbursement for specialty care will require clinicians, therapists, and caregivers trained to meet those needs.

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Why Care Coordination Is Important for Home Health and Hospice Agencies

Relias

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is ramping up survey scrutiny for hospice this year, training surveyors to focus on interdisciplinary group care planning and coordination of care as part of an emphasis on meeting four core Conditions of Participation. Increased scrutiny in hospices.

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