Today, on the CareAnyware home health software blog, attorney and home care legal expert Elizabeth C. Hogue shares details about the concept of “patient engagement”. As the screws tighten and CMS looks to cut costs, healthcare providers, including post-acute care and home health, have a responsibility to work with patients in a manner that enables [...]
06
May
Should Honest Mistakes be Punished? Palmetto Thinks So
It seems like the financial pressures for post-acute care providers just keep piling up. Consider this… Your patient care is exemplary. Great news! You run a lean, efficient organization and even with rate reductions, you’re in good financial shape. Congratulations! Your census is growing — clearly a product of your hard work and standing in [...]
02
May
Efficiency Critical to Survival in Home Health
Comments on MEDPAC’s Proposed Plan The Medicare Payment Advisory Council submitted recommendations to Congress last month that would significantly impact the post-acute industry and the patients we serve. Read the full text here. Major changes to the home health benefit would include accelerated rebasing of Medicare reimbursement rates and per-episode co-pays, asking some of the [...]
30
Apr
Free Webinar: Barriers to Seeking Hospice Care May 8th
Barriers to Seeking Hospice Care: What the Research Shows Transcend Hospice Marketing Group recently conducted its first national survey with family healthcare decision makers. In this complimentary webinar to be held at 1 PM EST Wednesday May 8th, they will cover their findings and you will learn how to better understand the barriers preventing people [...]
24
Apr
CareAnyware Introduces Cutting-Edge Hospice Capabilities at NHPCO Conference
Enhanced In-Patient, Clinical and Administrative Features Create the First Web-Based EMR System to Offer Full Hospice Functionality in One Easy-to-Use Platform ATLANTA – April 24, 2013 – CareAnyware, a Brightree Company and leading provider of web-based clinical, billing, and business management software solutions for home health and hospice agencies, introduces its Spring 2013 Release for [...]
12
Apr
News Roundup – Hospice Software Blog
Happy Friday! The CareAnyware hospice software blog news update is here. In this edition, we focus on EOL and palliative care issues. As Palliative Care Need Grows, Specialists Are Scarce In this piece from NPR, the issue of limited supply of certified palliative care specialists that account for a shortfall of as many as 18,000 [...]
10
Apr
When Your Employees Aren’t Tech Savvy: 3 Tips
Technology-resistant employees can slow down a team and impact the success of your home health software implementation. We’ve compiled a few tips to help you approach this challenge. Get it all out in the open. It may seem like a basic place to begin, but having a conversation with a tech-resistant employee that puts both [...]
05
Apr
5 YouTube Videos to Educate the Technology-Resistant Team
A comment we frequently hear from leaders when they are considering implementing home health software or hospice software is technology resistance. For teams that have been using paper, moving to laptops or tablets for home health or hospice point-of-care documentation can be daunting. In a previous post, we suggested taking the technology you’d like your [...]
01
Apr
Hospice Quality Reporting Program: NQF #0209 Deadline TODAY
Today is the deadline to avoid 2 percentage point reduction to APU for FY 2014 A note from Theresa M. Forster, Vice President for Hospice Policy & Programs, National Association for Home Care & Hospice: To comply with the Payment Year 2014 Hospice Quality Reporting Program (HQRP) requirements, providers should have entered or currently be [...]
01
Apr
Sequestration and PECOS Update for Medicare Home Health and Hospice
Medicare Home Health PPS and Medicare Hospice Changes Mandatory Payment Reductions in the Medicare Fee-For-Service Program – Sequestration All Medicare PPS and Medicare Hospice claims with dates of service on or after 4/1/2013 will have a 2% reduction in payment amounts. The reduction will be applied to Medicare PPS final claim payments, not to RAP [...]
