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What would you say are the two strongest drivers of lost productivity due to a health-related problem at your workplace? According to Lisa Jing, program manager of integrated health at San Jose, CA-based Cisco Systems, these are depression and anxiety.
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When this pandemic influenza season eases and there is time to ponder lessons learned, here's one question on the top of the list: Why did some corporations, such as Goldman Sachs and Citigroup, obtain vaccine before hospitals?
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This is the first of a two-part article that discusses the safety of home health employees. This month, we look at the types of workplace hazards home health employees face in patients' homes.
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Bayada Nurse's program that combines face-to-face education and remote monitoring of clinical information reduces hospitalizations for patients with congestive heart failure and hypertension.
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All home health managers understand the importance of reviewing financial statements regularly, but are you correctly reporting payment variances? Are you using these variances as a way to uncover documentation or clinical issues that need to be addressed?
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The good news for home health providers is that as the numbers of patients seeking home care rises, so do the satisfaction levels reported by home health patients.
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A combination of face-to-face and telephonic case management has resulted in high patient satisfaction ratings and a significant decrease in health care utilization for patients with complex medical needs.
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Home health agencies will receive a slightly worse than proposed payment update from Medicare in calendar year 2010, for an average net payment decrease of 1.03%, according to the final rule released by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
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Imagine one person complaining nonstop about everything from rude patients to out-of-ink pens. Over time, that individual can manage to undo hours of hard work and morale-boosting initiatives, and send your customer service crumbling.
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It's unlikely that many patient access professionals are seeing huge raises these days. "With the economy as it's been, I would imagine increases are minimal and folks are scrambling to hold on to their jobs," says Peter Kraus, CHAM, CPAR, a business analyst with patient financial services at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta.
