The Virginia Innovation Partnership Corporation (VIPC) has awarded HOP into Homecare! — an app designed to streamline the onboarding and training process for home health agencies’ clinicians — a $75,000 Commonwealth Commercialization Fund (CCF) grant. The fresh round of funds will fuel the app’s growth and development. Typically, when clinicians’ receive orientation and education, it […]

In July, CMS released a guide to new and updated frequently asked questions around the Home Health Value-Based Purchasing (HHVBP) model. Yet while home-based care providers certainly have many excellent, technical questions, one sits above all others: How will the expansion of HHVBP affect their reimbursement? The good news: the answer lies more with providers […]

As staffing challenges in the health care industry persist, the crunch to find top talent will likely continue in the months and even years ahead. For the home-based care industry, finding and retaining staff has presented a unique set of obstacles. The home health care industry was already on a growth fast track before the […]

The medical record comes to the coder and OASIS reviewers, which contains a large amount of data. While that’s normal, it’s no less daunting. The home health coder receives multiple documents from different providers and settings, often in multiple formats, and with voluminous amounts of pages that must all be reviewed. To properly and fully […]

For providers of home health and home-based care, managing audits is an ongoing challenge. While the Prospective Payment System (PPS) had several iterations, it was the reimbursement model for the past 20 years. That comfort level changed with the Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM), as billing has become an even more complex operation for agency back […]

Anyone working in care knows the challenge of being a home caregiver. For Ilya Vakhutinsky, it’s personal. Born in Ukraine, Vakhutinsky moved to the United States with his family when he was about one year old, with his mother becoming a caregiver and home health aide. “I have early childhood memories of her doing that […]

You don’t know what you don’t know. This saying rings true for many home-based health care organizations working toward Joint Commission accreditation. Previously, these organizations could only capture their information by manually collecting, organizing and analyzing their own data. Even after completing belaboring manual work, they still had difficulty understanding the totality of the data […]