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- Exciting news regarding your Beacon Institute membership
Dear Beacon Institute members,
We have some exciting news to report that will enrich your Beacon Institute membership. Starting next week you will start receiving a Tuesday Morning News email in place of your Monday Homecare eNews email. The Tuesday Morning News contains a breaking news story written by award-winning editors of Beacon Institute’s sister publication Home Health Line. The articles in this Tuesday email are in addition to the articles that you receive in your monthly Homecare Direction newsletter.
This is just another benefit of the merger announced last year between HCPro and DecisionHealth as part of the H3.Group. As a result of this merger, Beacon Institute members will continue to benefit from access to an increased array of in-depth compliance tips, tools and informa¬tion from trusted home health industry experts. This merger will continue to benefit Beacon Institute mem¬bers in many ways.
Thank you for your commitment to the Beacon Institute. We look forward to continuing to be your trusted source of information and training to comply with ever-changing CMS regulations.
Sincerely,
The H3.Group Team
Question or comments? Contact Editor Marci Heydt at mheydt@decisionhealth.com
- Is it OK to accept a doctor's signature on one page of a multi-page order as being signed?
It is important for the pages of the plan of care to be clearly numbered if there is more than one page and the physician does not sign each page.
- Is it necessary to document the RVVO piece of a verbal order?
The Joint Commission (TJC) includes a requirement under the Provision of Care, Treatment and Services [PC 02.01.03, EP 20] for the receiver of a verbal order to record it and read (not repeat) it back to the prescriber.
- Can we send an LPN to have consents signed and do wound care at SOC if the RN can’t come timely?
PNs - along with occupational and physical therapy assistants - aren't qualified to establish the Medicare home health benefit or perform comprehensive assessments, according to September 2009 OASIS Q&As.
- How should we handle cases when there are diagnoses presented on the assessment that weren’t in physcian documentation?
Diagnoses listed in M1011 (Inpatient diagnosis), M1021 (Primary diagnosis) and M1023 (Other diagnosis) may only be listed if there is supporting documentation from the physician substantiating the diagnosis.
- What advice could you provide when it comes to responding to the two new J items proposed for OASIS-D?
Review what instruction have provided for J1900C in the MDS 3.0 Resident Assessment Manual for skilled nursing facilities as a guide for planning our data collection.