Home Health Care News November 18, 2024
With the 2025 home health final payment rule came the admission-to-service policy — an update to the Medicare Conditions of Participation. In many ways, experts consider it a formalization of measures home health providers are already taking.
Broadly, the policy has two parts. The first part requires home health providers to develop, implement and maintain a consistent policy for how their organization accepts patients to service.
“They expect you to have four pieces to it,” Katy Barnett, director of home care and hospice operations and policy at LeadingAge, told Home Health Care News. “You want to look at the anticipated needs of the patients referred, so that can be their hospitalization, their diagnoses and anything that their physician, or their...
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