The Home Health Care Wire
Your source for CareVoyant and industry news.March 14, 2024
Staffing Challenges? Optimize Home Care Staff Utilization with Intelligent Scheduling
In today’s environment of employee scarcity, Home Care Agencies often find themselves wondering, “How can I keep up with growing demand for services with fewer staff?”
Home Care Agencies have multiple strategies to respond to the growing pressure to perform, like refining training and on-boarding, hiring events, and improving interviewing processes. However, one thing Home Care Agencies can count on to meet growing demand with fewer staff is Home Care Scheduling Software to optimize employee utilization.
The Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) process starts at intake and continues through authorization, scheduling, billing, and collections. Home Care Agencies must integrate the RCM process with operations to capture, bill, and collect revenue for all the services provided. Agencies should review the RCM process periodically and adjust the process to accommodate the changes in the patient and payer mix.
Home Care Agencies must leverage technology and software to automate repetitive and time-consuming revenue cycle tasks. Management by Exception throughout the RCM process will help home care agencies to do more with less.
PDN is a challenging field, and Private Duty Nurses face every-day organizational challenges when providing and documenting care for their patients. Private Duty Home Care Software that utilizes a mobile app can improve communication, increase efficiency, enhance accountability, improve patient and nurse satisfaction, increase client engagement, enhance security, and document EVV data.
Mobile apps help agencies improve their operational efficiency, increase nurse job satisfaction, and provide better care to their patients.
Home Healthcare Industry News
President Biden’s State Of The Union Address: ‘Imagine The Future Of Home Care’
In a State of the Union address that evoked Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln and Vladimir Putin within the first minute, President Joe Biden also made room for home-based care.
Pre-payment Review Results for Home Health Services for July to September 2023
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) implemented the TPE process for Home Health Services. The reviews with edit effectiveness are presented here. MAC Palmetto GBA has released its results for pre-payment denials under Targeted Probe and Educate (TPE) for July to September 2023. Of 5,839 claims reviewed, 942 were denied.
Lawmakers to CMS: Promote Urgent Care Centers to Address ER Crowding
Urgent care centers can treat many conditions commonly treated in emergency rooms, including sprains, fractures, lacerations, and urinary infections.
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