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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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Home Healthcare Market: How to Stay Competitive
Free-standing home health agencies (HHA) must develop viable plans for remaining competitive in the home healthcare market. The industry is ever-growing and lead generation is at the crux of any successful HHA agency. Even though a fair amount of patient referrals are made through word of mouth, in order to increase organizational profit and remain […]

How To Improve Cash Flow For Your Agency
As people always say, “Cash is the lifeline of any business.” This statement holds especially true for the companies in the home health industry because without sufficient cash flow, patient care would come to a standstill. There are many ways to improve your agency’s cash flow from creating and submitting claims as often as possible […]

Payroll Headaches: How to Avoid Them in Home Healthcare
Over the course of home health agency (HHA) industry growth, which has traditionally been a hands-on, in-person type of business, operations have been shifting to more automated core operating functions, such as payroll software and other technologies. By doing so, HHA owners and their care providers are offering greater qualities of care, as well as […]

Patient Transition of Care and Home Health Agencies
The importance of a well-planned patient transition of care between hospital discharges and home health care helps avoid re-hospitalizations, especially for those elderly patients with multiple medical conditions. Unplanned readmissions often times indicate a failure in one (or all) of these areas: Discharge practices or processes of hospitals Poor communication of care plan to home […]

Compliance Risks Pertinent To Home Health Agencies
How is your Home Health Agency (HHA) complying with state and federal compliance regulations and standards? This might seem like a loaded question. That’s partly because it is. In this blog, we’re going to look into some compliance risks that could happen in your day-to-day operations, and how to avoid such noncompliance. When an agency […]

CMS Star Rating System: Are you a 5-Star Provider?
On July 16, 2015, CMS announced that it would adopt a quality of patient care star rating system. Similar to what is used on online retail sites and restaurant review websites, the star rating system will give consumers a quick and easy way to compare provider quality. The star ratings are aimed to help summarize […]

The Hospice Compare Website is Now Live!
CMS recently debuted their new Hospice Compare website on August 16. Like the Home Health Compare website, Hospice Compare provides a snapshot of the quality of care each hospice facility offers to its patients. The website also gives visitors the ability to compare a hospice provider’s quality of care to national averages and to other hospices. This is all […]

Home Healthcare Agencies and Big Data Uses
Most home healthcare agencies can help track and manage population health as well as ensure an agency’s ability to deliver preventive health when it comes to big data. However, most home healthcare agencies use big data capabilities for billing purposes. Drilling down just a bit more into your big data can prove valuable to your […]

The RAC Audit: Beware
How often have you or an HHA that you know, undergone a CMS Audit? These days it’s becoming more popular for the government to audit HHAs on the grounds of overpayment, no or insufficient documentation, incorrect coding, fraudulent activities, or any one of ten other things. In 2013 alone, CMS has recouped over $3.1 billion […]

Regarding the Medicare Cost Report: Key Tips to Success
Key Tips for Success Regarding the Medicare Cost Report KanTime Tips for Success: March 2021 TOPIC: Success Regarding Medicare Cost Report BIG changes for CY 2020 reporting and beyond! There are numerous, significant changes that home health agencies must address to properly complete the Medicare Cost Report (MCR) for CY2020. In this session, John Reisinger, […]

State Medicaid Programs and Implementing EVV
When Congress passed the 21st Century Cures Act in December 2016—which mandated Electronic Visit Verification (EVV) for all state Medicaid programs—EVV became a reality for many home health agencies across the country. Although EVV can bring many accuracy- and efficiency-related benefits, no business likes to have processes forced upon them. Even though many states have […]

Patient Rights & QAPI Programs – Highlights (Part 2 of 2)
The most sweeping changes in the final rule of the CoPs for HHAs fall within the purview of patient rights and QAPI programs. Here’s a closer look at what they entail. Patient Rights One of the greatest changes in the final rule of the CoPs for HHAs involves the addition of a patient’s bill of rights […]