Home Health & Hospice Articles by Topic: HHCAHPS
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Homecare Direction, Issue 6, June 6, 2019
The number of agencies earning five stars in the quality of care star ratings ticked upward in the...
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Homecare E-News, Issue 10, March 5, 2018
If Home Health CAHPS survey vendors want to display an agency’s name and/or logo on mailing...
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Homecare Q&A, Issue 3, February 2, 2018
CAHPS results can have significant implications in the hospice arena. Beyond factoring into the...
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Homecare Direction, Issue 11, November 20, 2017
CMS’ plan to eliminate “Influenza im-munization received for current flu...
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Homecare Q&A, Issue 21, November 2, 2017
There are many steps agencies can take to improve their HHCAHPS scores.
Among them are the...
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Homecare E-News, Issue 41, October 30, 2017
Home Health Compare’s refresh this quarter produced a slightly different number of 5-star...
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Homecare Q&A, Issue 20, October 17, 2017
Have clinicians follow up the next day when patients have a change in pain medications or...
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Homecare E-News, Issue 38, October 9, 2017
CMS is hosting an open door forum 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. EST Oct. 10 to discuss modifications and...
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Homecare Direction, Issue 9, September 29, 2017
Updating the referral date for all patients who experi-ence a delay in discharge from inpatient...
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Homecare E-News, Issue 32, August 21, 2017
Hospice Compare’s launch Aug. 16 confirms that, for the most part, hospices already perform...
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Homecare Q&A, Issue 16, August 17, 2017
Familiarity with the contents of the CAHPS survey can help hospice staff understand how various...
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Homecare E-News, Issue 28, July 21, 2017
New Program for Evaluating Payment Patterns Electronic Reports (PEPPERs) through CY 2016 are...
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Homecare E-News, Issue 28, July 21, 2017
Only a select group of 43 agencies that earned 5 stars in quality of care July 12 have remained on...
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Homecare Q&A, Issue 14, July 17, 2017
It’s true that you will struggle. A study of hospitalizations using a national all-payer...
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Homecare E-News, Issue 11, March 14, 2016
In January, CMS posted the first Patient Survey Star Rating information on the Home Health Compare...
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Homecare Q&A, Issue 1, January 3, 2016
You are correct, M1034 is risk adjusted. Please be sure clinicians are answering response “3...
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Homecare Q&A, Issue 21, November 3, 2015
The measure is derived from the percentage of home health episodes of care during which the...
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Homecare Q&A, Issue 9, May 3, 2015
What happens to patients who can self-inject but cannot pre-fill insulin syringes?
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Homecare Insider, Issue 1, January 5, 2015
Will home health remain exempt from overtime compensation in most circumstances like it has for 40...