Home Health Agencies must meet requirement of skilled need in their documentation to meet requirements for reimbursement. But, what is skilled need? That should be easy to answer but you ask a nurse working in home health and the answer may surprise you!
Have you as an Administrator, DON or Case Management Nurse wondered why it is so difficult to get nurses to complete a 60 day summary? Answer is simple. Most nurses have a difficult time summarizing care, remembering specifics for each patient and thus has a difficult time formulating the case for needs not met.
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