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LeadingAge Submits Comments on Home Health Payment
September 4, 2018 by Aaron Tripp LeadingAge submitted comments on the calendar year (CY) 2019 Medicare home health proposed rule focusing on the rural add-on payments, Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM), remote monitoring, and the home health value-based purchasing...
Why Home Health Payment Reform Isn’t a ‘Death Knell’ for Therapy Services
from Home Health Care News, by Robert Holly | July 19, 2018 https://homehealthcarenews.com/2018/07/why-home-health-payment-reform-isnt-a-death-knell-for-therapy-services/
2019 Home and Community-Based Services Funding Advances Legislation By Barbara Gay
Fiscal 2019 funding for home and community-based services moved closer to enactment on August 23, as the Senate passed H.R. 6157, a combined spending bill covering the Defense Department and the Departments of Labor and of Health and Human Services. Learn more in the...
Home Health, Hospice Admissions Trending Upward By Kaitlyn Mattson | August 28, 2018
https://homehealthcarenews.com/2018/08/home-health-hospice-admissions-trending-upward/
Hospices to Receive 1.8% Payment Update, from LeadingAge
"On August 6, 2018 the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published the fiscal year (FY) 2019 Hospice Wage Index and Payment Rate Update final rule. The hospice payment update percentage for FY 2019 is 1.8%." Learn more in the attached article, by Aaron...
5 Ways Your Home Care Office Staff Can Increase Caregiver Retention
"Your office staff are well-equipped to help you deal with caregiver turnover. Don’t try to do it all yourself."...
CMS Takes Action to Modernize Medicare Home Health
https://www.cms.gov/Outreach-and-Education/Outreach/FFSProvPartProg/Provider-Partnership-Email-Archive-Items/2018-07-02-eNews-Se.html?DLPage=1&DLEntries=10&DLSort=0&DLSortDir=descending
Candid Conversations Reveal Home Health is a Top Investment Target By Amy Baxter | June 21, 2018
https://homehealthcarenews.com/2018/06/candid-conversations-reveal-home-health-is-a-top-investment-target/
Article by Nancy King’s featured on Senior Housing Forum
"How Do I go from Outstanding to Terminated" by Nancy King, President, Senior Options, is the featured story on this week's Senior Housing Forum blog. King discusses the conclusions drawn from her interviews and research for her book "Fired: How to Manage Your...
We Can’t Keep Churning Workers Through Our Organizations
from Senior Housing Forum Published on Wed, 05/16/2018 - 7:14pm By Nancy Koury King The USA television network had a motto, “Characters Welcome.” It referred to its intent to showcase unusual and fascinating characters in its television shows. I love it and I aspire...
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August 2018 News from Senior Options
Fleet Landing Home Care, Atlantic Beach, FL successfully completed the 2-day ACHC Accreditation Survey. Congratulations to Mia Lewis, Administrator, Raquel Miranda, Outreach Coordinator, and Melissa Howlett, RN on the outstanding results. Lake Prince At Home,...
July 2018 News from Senior Options
Congratulations to Kevin Daignault, Administrator, and the Westminster Canterbury Richmond at Home team on achieving CHAP certification; and to Brooke Rivera and the hospice team at Senior Independence of Montana, on achieving Level 2 of NHPCO's "We Honor Veterans"...
June 2018 News from Senior Options
Congratulations to Brooke Rivera and the Senior Independence of Montana team, as they have achieved a 5-star rating in Patient Satisfaction, a distinction that less than 5% of agencies nationwide achieve; Nancy King and Melissa Andrews, President and CEO of LeadingAge...
May 2018 News from Senior Options
"Furthering Your Mission With Social Capital" presentation to be held during the LeadingAge Virginia annual meeting; Westminster Canterbury Richmond at Home is having their CHAP survey; "Strategic and Practical Considerations for Expanding into Home Health and...
April 2018 News from Senior Options
Fleet Landing and Senior Options have met to "Kick Off" the partnership; Meredith Hodges of Senior Options has been selected to participate in the VA/MD/DC LeadingAge Leadership Academy; Nancy King of Senior Options and Chris Hendrickson of Ziegler will be presenting...
March 2018 News from Senior Options
Four Partner Agencies Recognized as "Likely to Recommend" in Hospice Compare Family Satisfaction Report; Westminster Canterbury Richmond at Home (Richmond, VA) has received approval of their 855A for Medicare certification; Westminster Canterbury at Home (Virginia...
February 2018 News from Senior Options
Representatives from 4 Senior Options partners recently completed the 2018 Inaugural LeadingAge DC, Delaware, Maryland and Virginia Leadership Academy; CMS to Allow Non-Skilled Home Care Benefit in Medicare Advantage starting in 2019; Senior Options offers LeadingAge...
January 2018 News from Senior Options
Senior Options partners Westminster Canterbury Richmond at Home and Westminster Canterbury at Home have added new Administrators; Masonic Village Hospice is now using the Physician Portal within Netsmart, Nancy King will be speaking at the BB&T conference later...
Senior Options 2017 Operations Retreat
Thank you to today's speakers for the excellent programs presented during Day I of the Senior Options Operations Retreat, held in Virginia Beach. Nancy King, center, started us off with her "Leadership Balance" session. Dawn Iddings and Stephen Aleksza, Netsmart...
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