Be aware of the most common home health survey deficiencies

Scheduled surveyors come every three years and they can knock on your door at any time with a complaint or other concern

. As such you need to be on your toes constantly.

Be it maintaining compliance with the Medicare Conditions of Participation (COPs) or ensuring your electronic clinical documentation system is on the up, you have a lot coming up. Therefore, it is no secret that maintaining compliance is an ongoing challenge; however, a first step is knowing the most common deficiencies and how to prevent them.

What's more, penalties for survey deficiencies can be severe. You and your agencies must be aware of the most common home health survey deficiencies.

How? By signing up for an audio conference. When you sign up for one, you can sail through tricky survey process and ensure you are on the right path to compliance. You will get to know the tools you can use for both self-assessment and to boost compliance.

Onboard such a conference, apart from getting to know the most common deficiencies, you'll learn common problems with electronic clinical documentation systems in the survey environment and ways to prepare for them,

That apart, you'll also learn how to respond to survey findings and what's expected in every step in the process.

The best part of attending such conferences is that you do not have to go the distance to attend one. And in case you happen to miss out on one, you can always lend your ears to recorded CDs and print transcripts. You can even take home CEUs by attending these conferences on home health survey deficiencies.

Be aware of the most common home health survey deficiencies

By: Angela Martin

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