Tag: Compliance

Update to Medicare policy manual requires scope of practice documentation.Effective today, when a nurse practitioner or a clinical nurse specialist certifies eligibility and orders services for a Medicare patient, additional documentation will be required...

Is your Plan of Care compliant?.SimiTree compliance experts offer tips for creating a survey ready POC Which medications is the patient taking? What about the herbal supplements and over-the-counter vitamins she...

Is your agency’s care coordination making the grade?.From survey scrutiny to performance scores under Value-Based Purchasing, reasons are mounting for both home health and hospice agencies to structure regular care coordination...

Expected increased survey scrutiny for unvaccinated agency staff.By Sheila Salisbury-Sizemore RN, BSN SimiTree Senior Manager, Compliance   Now that the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS has retired the Focused...

Preview of April Care Compare refresh now available.A preview of the April refresh of Care Compare, with two new OASIS-based measures for home health public reporting, has been made available to home health providers by the Centers...

FIC Surveys have ended, but surveyors still look carefully at infection control.The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) retired its Focused Infection Control (FIC) Survey and tool last winter, but it still wants to know whether agencies are doing...

January 2022 Quarterly CMS Q&As have been posted.The January 2022 Quarterly Q&As have been posted by CMS, bringing the industry both new and revised guidance. CMS has confirmed we are still on track to begin OASIS-E January 1,...

COVID-19 UPDATES IMPACTING HOME HEALTH AND HOSPICE AGENCIES:.Extension of the Federal Public Health Emergency and Vaccine Mandates for Healthcare Providers There have been several key updates late last week on the federal COVID-19 pandemic...