The Home Health Care Wire
Your source for CareVoyant and industry news. December 13, 2023
What to Look for When Choosing a Pediatric Private Duty Nursing Software
Providing care for children at home poses unique agency-level challenges. Patient intake and authorizations can be more challenging than when treating an adult. The clinical documentation process can be hampered when more care coordination is needed for pediatric patients. Scheduling becomes an issue when demand for pediatric private duty services is high. Adding to this challenge is the need to recruit, train, and retain qualified pediatric private duty nurses.
The right Pediatric Home Care Software can address the unique challenges that Pediatric Private Duty Nursing poses. This blog will discuss how the right software for pediatric private duty nursing agencies can optimize agency management and improve bottom line.
Taking a multifaceted approach to addressing the stress home care workers experience in their professional lives allows home care agencies to retain quality home care workers longer. By prioritizing training, mental health support, feedback, recognition, flexible scheduling, and user-friendly home care software, home care agencies can create an environment that allows home care workers to strike a healthy work-life balance. Ultimately, investing in the health and happiness of home care workers not only reduces their overall stress, but allows them to provide compassionate, quality care to the millions that need it now, and the millions more who will need it in the future.
This blog will suggest strategies that home care agencies can use to promote a more supportive work environment and reduce stress on home care workers.
Even though home healthcare agencies face many challenges, there are also many opportunities. Despite all the challenges facing the home healthcare industry, it will continue to grow and play an integral part in providing care at home. Technology will play a vital role in helping home care agencies to do more with less and improve operation efficiency. Integrated Home Care Software platform with the right technology and tools will play a significant role in helping home agencies meet these challenges and continue to grow.
In this blog, we discuss how some of these trends are shaping the direction of the home healthcare industry.
Home Healthcare Industry News
MedPAC recommends 7% payment cut for home health in 2025
Pointing to wide margins it sees for home health providers under Medicare Fee-For-Service, MedPAC is poised to call for a 7% payment cut for agencies in its next recommendations to Congress.
Top denial reasons: Records not submitted, F2F errors
The Medicare Administrative Contractor working in 16 states noted that 42% of all claim denials were due to requested records not being submitted. In 28% of cases, the face-to-face encounter did not meet CMS requirements.
CMS updates manual for NPWT billing changes
CMS has issued a change request updating the Medicare Claims Processing Manual to reflect new requirements for billing disposable negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) devices. Effective Jan. 1, 2024, these claims will use Type of Bill 032x only. Disposable NPWT claims that use Type of Bill 034x will be returned to the provider, CMS notes in the updates.
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