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Hospice Billing Compliance: The Latest PEPPER Updates

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The Program for Evaluating Payment Patterns Electronic Report, or PEPPER, contains valuable information to help your hospice organization identify billing issues and prevent improper payment audits. The provider-specific PEPPER analyzes Medicare data and statistics from discharges and services compared with every hospice nationwide.

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Why Care Coordination Is Important for Home Health and Hospice Agencies

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A well-designed care coordination process benefits patients, providers, and payer organizations. Improved care quality and patient safety, reduced readmissions and ER visits, and lower healthcare costs are just some of the positive outcomes of effective care coordination. Increased scrutiny in hospices.

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Grow Your Own Home Health Aides To Capture New Business

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Demand for home healthcare continues to rise, and at the same time home health aide staffing remains an ongoing challenge for agency administrators. To ensure you can maximize your share of the home health market, consider developing your own pool of home health aides by training them from the ground up.

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Importance of Image and Respect for Home Health Recruitment and Retention

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The increased pressure of the COVID-19 pandemic has presented never-before-seen growth opportunities for home health agencies and their workforce, as Bill Dombi, President of the National Association of Home Care and Hospice (NAHC), noted in a December 2021 webinar titled The State of Home Health.

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Connecting to People Living With Dementia

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Understanding how to communicate effectively with people with dementia is vital for healthcare professionals in various settings, including home care, assisted living facilities, hospitals, and hospices. A patient’s ability to communicate affects care outcomes in multiple ways.

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Connecting to People With Dementia

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Understanding how to communicate effectively with people with dementia is vital for healthcare professionals in various settings, including home care, assisted living facilities, hospitals, and hospices. A patient’s ability to communicate affects care outcomes in multiple ways.

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Future-Proof Your Workforce: Post-Acute Care Reskilling and Upskilling

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The speed of change in healthcare requires post-acute care organizations to take a different approach to job preparedness. Leaders in assisted living, skilled nursing, home health, rehab therapy, wound care, and hospice know you can’t hire all the skills your organization will need tomorrow and in the future.