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OASIS-E Spotlight: Route of Current Reconciled Medication List Transmission to Subsequent Provider
Making sense of CMS guidelines is more challenging than ever after the launch of OASIS-E and the abundance of changes that go along with it. KanTime’s OASIS Spotlight series will spotlight specific OASIS items to simplify the ruling and help clinicians significantly improve their understanding of OASIS so they can move forward with accuracy. A2122: […]

OASIS-E Spotlight: Provision of Current Reconciled Medication List to Patient at Discharge
Making sense of CMS guidelines is more challenging than ever after the launch of OASIS-E and the abundance of changes that go along with it. KanTime’s OASIS Spotlight series will spotlight specific OASIS items to simplify the ruling and help clinicians significantly improve their understanding of OASIS so they can move forward with accuracy. A2123: […]

OASIS-E Spotlight : Provision of Current Reconciled Medication List to Subsequent Provider at Discharge
Making sense of CMS guidelines is more challenging than ever after the launch of OASIS-E and the abundance of changes that go along with it. KanTime’s OASIS Spotlight series will spotlight specific OASIS items to simplify the ruling and help clinicians significantly improve their understanding of OASIS so they can move forward with accuracy. A2121: […]

Oasis-E Spotlight: Provision of Current Reconciled Medication List to Subsequent Provider at Transfer
Making sense of CMS guidelines is more challenging than ever after the launch of OASIS-E and the abundance of changes that go along with it. KanTime’s OASIS Spotlight series will spotlight specific OASIS items to simplify the ruling and help clinicians significantly improve their understanding of OASIS so they can move forward with accuracy. A2120: […]
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Key Barriers Could Limit Adoption of Home-Based Care Models
COVID-19 provided the post-acute care industry the opportunity to shake the healthcare market by turning the world’s attention to the home-based care model. It has been shown that the home-based care approach can boost patient satisfaction, lower cost, and improve the quality of care versus providing care in a hospital setting. However, there have been […]

CMS Update: Expanded HHVBP Model
On January 1, 2022, CMS implemented the expanded HHVBP model to include Medicare-certified Home Health Agencies (HHAs) in all fifty states, Washington DC, and U.S. territories. The calendar year, 2022, will be the pre-implementation year. CMS will provide resources and training to give agencies time to prepare and learn about the requirements of the expanded […]

Why Political Roadblocks Threaten Home Health Care’s Biggest Policy in 2022
Since the start of 2022, there have been several policy concerns around home-based care. Home healthcare policies are considered timely and critical in the post-acute care industry; however, it seems in Washington D.C. that lawmakers do not see it that way. Some of the home healthcare policies expressed are the extension of the Acute Hospital […]

Easing the Transition from Hospital to Pediatric Post-Acute Care
No one likes the hospital; whether you’re five or 105 years old, the hospital probably ranks up there with going to the dentist. The long wait hours, cold chairs, piercing bright lights and having to repeat your medical history to a doctor every few hours make it uninviting. But to a child in the pediatric […]

The Importance of Documentation in Home Health Pediatrics
Pediatric documentation can be tedious and meticulous, especially if an agency’s software doesn’t have a streamlined process to make it easier. Clinicians make multiple patient visits a day, thus manually documenting each patient’s visit and then inputting the information into the system. This often creates room for error or bottlenecks, resulting in more extended workdays […]

The Importance of Deprescribing and How Technology Can Help You and Your Patients
Deprescribing is a meaningful conversation that clinicians need to have with their patients once admitted into hospice. Many times, when patients come into hospice care, they are over-prescribed medications that they don’t need to be on at all. It’s the clinician’s responsibility to ensure their patients receive the proper treatment while in hospice care and […]

Understanding the Patient Driven Groupings Model (PDGM)
Change has been occurring left and right over the past year and a half, especially in the post-acute care industry. The most recent is the Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM), having changed their RAP adjustments three times over the past years. While juggling all these changes, post-acute care agencies need not worry as we go through […]

FY 2022 Final Rule: What to Expect in 2022
This month, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized the FY 2022 CMS Proposed Rule. On August 4, 2021, the Federal Register made public the official FY 2022 CMS Final Rule. The Hospice Final Rule goes into effect on January 1st, 2022. Hospice agencies can expect minor changes to the proposed rule that […]

Palliative Care in the Post Acute Care Industry
This article discusses what palliative care is, why it’s important in the home healthcare industry, and some differences between palliative, home health, and hospice care. What is Palliative Care? According to The Center to Advance Palliative Care: “Palliative care is provided by a specially-trained team of doctors, nurses and other specialists who work together […]

Is Your Hospice Agency Constantly Performing IDT Prep?
An efficient and effective Hospice IDT process is essential to ensure core care teams can provide and document the required oversight and adjustments to the patient’s care plan while still having time to participate in inpatient care. Many Hospices have expressed spending 5+ days in research and prep mode before the actual IDT to gather […]

Intake and Referral Process: Helping Your Agency Become Efficient
Why Is Patient Intake Important? The intake and referral process can be stressful in post-acute care if a healthcare agency doesn’t have the right tools and resources to streamline the process. The back-office staff may already have a million other tasks to do, so the paperwork could potentially become lost in the void or inaccurate, […]

Supporting Patient and Family Centered Care During Difficult Transitions
When a patient is transferred from acute care to post-acute care, the patient isn’t the only one affected. The families of patients are introduced to a new stage of care crowded with unfamiliar medical jargon, confusing medical coverage exclusions, and direct communication with care providers. They’re handling finances, bearing the burden of decision-making responsibilities, and […]