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TeleVisit Success Story

One agency shares how it started doing telehealth visits and why they will never look back [...]

October 13, 2020 By Kristi Bajer, BSN, RN, COS-C PDGM, Therapy, Home Health, Quality assurance, Telehealth, OASIS, 5-Day RAP Penalty Read More Full Blog

THE HIGH COST OF LOW FUNCTIONAL SCORES

The cost of an inaccurate functional assessment is high under PDGM.  Understanding how to score the OASIS functional portion is imperative for your HHA. [...]

January 27, 2020 By Kristi Bajer, BSN, RN, COS-C PDGM, Therapy, Home Health Read More Full Blog

RECOVERING YOUR THERAPY MARGINS

Recovering “therapy margins” requires increases in productivity, not efficiency. Efficiency is doing the same with less. Productivity is doing more with the same. [...]

January 21, 2020 By Michael McGowan PDGM, Therapy, Home Health Read More Full Blog

PDGM AND THERAPY UTILIZATION

Today's blog has tips to help your HHAs therapy utilization is managed to meet your patient’s needs based on patient data as well as your HHAs margins. [...]

December 02, 2019 By Kristi Bajer, BSN, RN, COS-C PDGM, Compliance, Therapy, Home Health, OASIS Read More Full Blog

OASIS STRATEGIES FOR ACCURATE FUNCTIONAL SCORES

OASIS accuracy is more important than ever in PDGM. These four things that will ensure accurate OASIS and consistent margins in PDGM. [...]

November 18, 2019 By Kristi Bajer, BSN, RN, COS-C PDGM, Therapy, Home Health, Quality assurance, OASIS Read More Full Blog

SHOULD HOME HEALTH TAKE NOTICE OF THERAPY CARNAGE IN PDPM?

PDPM seems to be making a therapy impact in SNFs. Prepare now by learning 5 ways your HHA can continue to provide therapy for patients who need it in PDGM. [...]

October 09, 2019 By Kristi Bajer, BSN, RN, COS-C PDGM, Therapy, Home Health Read More Full Blog

PREPARING TO MANAGE THERAPY UNDER PDGM STARTS NOW

PDGM preparation starts with a look at current therapy utilization and OASIS accuracy. Is your HHA pairing low functional scores with high therapy? [...]

June 01, 2019 By Kristi Bajer, BSN, RN, COS-C PDGM, Therapy, Home Health Read More Full Blog
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