02 — Capability · BC-1890.10
Home Health Services
Admit eligible patients to skilled care at home promptly, get the right clinician to each visit and record what was done there, and keep orders and certifications current for every period of care. The standardized assessment and period billing are separate capabilities.
- Home Health Care
- Home Health Agency Operations
- Skilled Home Care
- HHA Operations
In scope
- Referral intake, homebound and face-to-face eligibility checks and start of care
- Visit scheduling and routing of field clinicians, and electronic visit verification
- Point-of-care documentation in the home, including capture without a network connection
- Plan of care and interim order signatures, recertification, transfer and discharge
Out of scope
- Monitoring readings from devices in the patient's home (see BC-1820.60.40)
- Clinical documentation standards and templates shared with the hospital (see BC-1820.10)
- Shift scheduling and timekeeping of employed clinicians (see BC-350.60)
- The OASIS assessment and its submission (see BC-1890.40)
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- BC-1890.10.10Home Health Referral IntakeReceive referrals from hospitals, physicians and families, confirm the patient is homebound, needs skilled care and has a qualifying face-to-face encounter, and accept, decline or start care within the required time.
- BC-1890.10.20Field Visit Scheduling & RoutingAssign each visit the plan of care calls for to a clinician with the right discipline, territory and availability, route the day's visits, and recover missed or refused visits before the plan falls behind.
- BC-1890.10.30Electronic Visit VerificationCapture the time, place, person and service of each home visit electronically, as Medicaid programs require for home health and personal care, and resolve exceptions before the visit is billed.
- BC-1890.10.40Point-of-Care Visit DocumentationLet field clinicians record each visit in the home on a mobile device, with or without a connection, and sync it to the record the same day so the next clinician and the office see it.
- BC-1890.10.50Home Health Orders & RecertificationGet the plan of care and every interim order signed by the certifying practitioner, recertify patients who still qualify at the end of each certification period, and transfer or discharge the rest with a handoff.