Value Based Purchasing
This is the year the nationwide expansion of the Home Health Value-Based Purchasing model began.
What is 2023?
The face-to-face encounter must occur within this number of days before or after the start of home health care.
What is 90 days before or 30 days after?
In Kinnser, this tool allows agencies to track and manage physician orders from creation to return.
What is the Orders Tracking tool?
In The Office, this character declared bankruptcy by literally shouting “I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!” in the middle of the office.
Who is Michael Scott?
This acronym refers to the patient survey used as one of the VBP quality measures.
What is HHCAHPS?
A face-to-face can be conducted by a physician or one of these non-physician practitioners
What is a nurse practitioner, clinical nurse specialist, or physician assistant?
This Kinnser view shows a clinician’s outstanding tasks that need attention (e.g., unsigned notes, pending orders, overdue items).
What is Hotbox?
This Friends character was “on a break” — at least according to him — when he caused one of TV’s most famous arguments.
Who is Ross Geller?
Under VBP, these types of measures evaluate both improvement and decline in a patient’s condition.
What are outcome measures?
This is the main reason Medicare requires a face-to-face visit before starting home health.
What is to verify the patient’s eligibility and need for skilled services?
This feature in Kinnser allows you to send secure messages to other staff members without using email.
What is Kmail?
Baby Yoda isn’t actually Baby Yoda — his real name is this, but good luck getting the internet to stop calling him Baby Yoda.
Who is Grogu?
These VBP measures are calculated using Medicare billing data rather than OASIS or patient surveys
What are claims-based measures?
This form is often used by agencies to document the provider’s attestation for the face-to-face encounter.
What is the Face-to-Face Encounter form (or certification form)?
This Kinnser report can be run to check which visits are overdue and need to be completed.
What is the Past Due Visit report?
In Finding Nemo, these three words were Dory’s advice for staying positive.
What is “Just keep swimming”?
Prime Home Health aims to keep this percentage of patient hospitalizations below this target rate.
What is under 10%?
If the face-to-face encounter documentation is missing or incomplete, Medicare will take this action on the claim.
What is deny payment?
In Kinnser, this feature provides a list of staff members with their contact information so you can quickly reach them.
What is the Phone Roster?
In Back to the Future, you need this speed to activate the DeLorean’s flux capacitor and time travel.
What is 88 miles per hour?