by Jeffrey Grossman, Esq. In January 2016, the Department of Labor (DOL) officially extended federal wage protections to home care workers under the Fair Labor Standards Act, entitling them to the federal minimum wage, time-and-a-half pay for overtime, and pay for time spent traveling between clients. Predictably, lobbyist groups working on behalf of home care […]
By Tim Rowan, Editor & Publisher of Home Care Technology Report As hospice services continue to grow and the number of hospices increases, software companies respond in two ways. Home health software systems vendors add hospice functionality and new hospice-only software systems appear. One example of the latter case is a software company that was […]
By Tim Rowan. Editor & Publisher, Home Care Technology Report As we continue to keep readers informed about the impact of CMS’s Pre-Claim Review pilot, we spoke this week with two software vendors, a CMS connection service provider, and two consultants, one a financial advisor and the other an appeals resolution specialist. We believe we […]
By Tim Rowan, Editor & Publisher, Home Care Technology Report Santa Monica, CA – June 23, 2016 –Cedars-Sinai hospital in Los Angeles will announce today that it is launching “Safe Transition Home,” a partnership with HomeHero, a Santa Monica-based, non-medical home care provider. The program is designed to smoothly transition patients from the hospital to […]
Commentary by Scott Herrmann, Director of Strategic Solutions at Medocity (Salt Lake City, UT and Alpharetta, GA) The continuing story of our fractured health care system seems to be highlighted in the news most every day. Failures in patient care coordination, from medication errors to lack of communication between providers, all add to increased […]
By Tim Rowan, Editor & Publisher, Home Care Technology Report “Handbook of Home Health Care Administration: Sixth Edition”* is a textbook that should be on the shelf in every branch of every healthcare at home provider. Let’s modify that. It should never be on the shelf but should live on the administrator’s or branch manager’s […]
Tim Rowan, Editor & Publisher of Home Care Technology Report Curaport, to whom we introduced you last month, has partnered with Ankota CEO Ken Accardi to deliver a timely education session to Home Care providers. “How Homecare Wins in the Bundled Payment Era” is scheduled for Thursday, June 23, at 1:00 p.m. EDT. Register here. [Details are […]
By Tim Rowan, Editor & Publisher, Home Care Technology Report The Alliance for Home Health Quality and Innovation (the Alliance) today released a new data analysis from Dobson | DaVanzo & Associates that found the use of home health after a hospital stay is associated with cost effective care and lower readmission rates for Medicare […]
By Tim Rowan, Editor & Publisher, Home Care Technology Report In a June 14 Open Door Forum, CMS representatives answered questions about the new Home Health documentation rule they will soon begin to test in five states. The “Pre-Claim Review” rule, as it is now called by the department that manages payments to Medicare home […]
By Tim Rowan, Editor & Publisher of Home Care Technology Report We have long promoted the strategy of combining technologies rather than expecting a home healthcare or hospice EMR to fulfill a provider agency’s every automation need. In recent weeks, we have found three supplemental systems that appear to us will save more than they […]
