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OASIS-E Spotlight: Pain Interference with Day-to-Day Activities
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. J0530 […]

OASIS-E Spotlight: Pain Interference with Therapy Activities
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. J0520 […]

OASIS-E Spotlight: Social Isolation
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. D0700: […]

OASIS-E Spotlight: Total Severity Score
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. D0160: […]

OASIS-E Spotlight: Patient Mood Interview
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. D0150: […]
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Can Your EMR Software Pivot Fast Enough?
It’s an all too familiar scenario. Your revenue cycle manager enters your office to ask why your cash is decreasing, yet patient visits and billing numbers indicate no decrease in the number of services provided or billing. You review Accounts Receivable (AR) and identify the problem: a delay in various payments by an insurance provider. […]

The Current State of Electronic Visit Verification: How Can Healthcare Agencies Best Adapt?
The medical landscape is changing due to technological advancements and ever-changing policies. While technology adoption is easily manageable, policy adherence is often complicated, confusing, and disrupts workflow. Back in 2016, the 21st Century Cures Act (2016 Cures Act) was signed into action. This act served as a dedication to effective patient care, specifically applying to […]

Home Health Care Technology is Taking the Industry By Storm
New technologies enlisted by home healthcare agencies are taking patient care to a whole new level. Whether it be sensors that that are worn by patients, telehealth practices used over landline telephones or electronic devices, or GPS devices that track misplaced eyeglasses, a plethora of technologies are available to lessen the burden for in-home patients […]

Preventing Medication Errors in Home Care
According to the NCBI (National Center for Biotechnology Information), medication errors are estimated to harm at least 1.5 million patients per year in the U.S. alone. Medication errors are one of the leading causes of death and injury for Medicare beneficiaries. Due to the frequency of medication and complex process of prescribing and administering drugs, […]

Physician Referrals: 3 Steps To Success – Part 2 of 3
STEP 2: Get Pitch Perfect Once you’ve worked your way through the front office and earned your first 5 minutes with the doctor, it’s time to make an impact. With increasing competition in the home health care market, and ever-increasing pressure on a physician’s time and resources, getting just 5 minutes with a physician can […]

Physician Referrals: 3 Steps To Success – Part 1 of 3
With increasing competition in the home health care market, and ever increasing pressure on a physician’s time and resources, home health representatives face an uphill task to get just 5 minutes with a physician. In addition like all sales representatives, you too might be turned away by the physical’s staff, who’s responsibility it is to […]

The Recent Crack-Down on For-Profit Hospice Organizations
Medicare Hospice spending has seen an exponential increase over recent years, particularly in the for-profit sector. For-profit hospice organizations have also increased—primarily in for-profit hospices, which accounted for over 63 percent of total hospice provision upsurges within the nation. Moreover, for-profit hospice centers receive more money from Medicare than their non-profit counterparts. As far as […]