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Industry Insights for Home Health Technology

The healthcare industry is ever evolving – with changing rules and regulations forcing agencies to shift processes to stay in compliance. Learn from our experts and keep your agency up to date with all things post-acute care and home health technology by exploring our available resources.

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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: […]

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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: […]

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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 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 […]

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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, […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]