Handbook of Home Health Standards - Revised Reprint: Quality, Documentation, and Reimbursement

Feature: Offers easy-to-access and easy-to-read format

Benefit: Guides users step by step through important home care standards and documentation guidelines

Feature: Provides practical tips for effective documentation of diagnoses/clinical conditions commonly treated in the home

Benefit: Ensures appropriate reimbursement from third party payors.

Feature: Lists ICD-9-CM diagnostic codes in each body system section, along with a complete alphabetical list of all codes included in the book in an appendix.

Benefit: Assists in completing CMS billing forms.

Feature: Incorporates hospice care and documentation standards

Benefit: Providers can create effective hospice documentation.

Feature: Provides guidelines based on the most current approved standards of care.

Benefit: Ensures the provision of quality care

Feature: Includes the most current NANDA-approved nursing diagnoses

Benefit: Providers have the most accurate and up-to-date information at their fingertips.

Feature: Identifies skilled services.

Benefit: Includes services appropriate for the multidisciplinary team to perform.

Feature: Offers discharge planning solutions to address specific concerns

Benefit: Providers can easily identify the plan of discharge that most effectively meets the patient's needs.

Feature: Lists the crucial parts of all standards that specific members of the multidisciplinary team (e.g., the nurse, social worker) must uphold

Benefit: Allows the multidisciplinary team to work effectively together to achieve optimum patient outcomes.

Feature: Includes updated resources for care and practice

Benefit: Directs providers to useful sources to improve patient care and/or enhance their professional practice.

Feature: Each set of guidelines includes patient, family, and caregiver education

Benefit: Health care providers can supply clients with necessary information for specific problems or concerns.

Feature: Communication tips identify quantifiable data

Benefit: Assists in providing insurance case managers with information on which to make effective patient care decisions.

Feature: Several useful sections: medicare guidelines; home care definitions, roles, and abbreviations; NANDA-approved nursing diagnoses; guidelines for home medial equipment and supplies.

Benefit: Ensures the most thorough and complete reference for home health care.

Feature: Small trim size and spiral binding

Benefit: Convenient for portability and easy access to content.

Feature: Includes the most current OASIS C Assessment and Consideration codes and data elements.

Benefit: Ensures complete, accurate, and timely completion of documentation for effective reimbursement.

Feature: Up-to-date forms and templates

Benefit: Illustrate accurate completion of the Point of Care (POC) and Outcome and Assessment Information Set (OASIS-C)

Feature: Updated terminology, definitions, and references

Benefit: Reflects the current terminology and definitions and most recent resources useful to clinicians and managers in home care.