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Home Health & Hospice Resources
Home Health & Hospice Resources
Medicare covers a wide range of home health and hospice services. During Home Care & Hospice Month, get familiar with these Medicare Learning Network resources:
Medicare Payment Systems:
Medicare Provider Compliance Tips:
Enhancing Registered Nurse Supervision of Hospice Aide Services (PDF)
Information for Patients:
Care Compare: Search for home health services or hospice care
Home Health:
Home health services webpage
Medicare & Home Health Care booklet
Hospice:
Hospice care webpage
Medicare Hospice Benefits booklet
Supporting Healthcare and Public Health Workforce Mental Health
Supporting Healthcare and Public Health Workforce Mental Health
Healthcare workers probably deserved more of our attention before the COVID-19 pandemic. The global crisis only elevated their experience of mental health concerns like stress, burnout, depression, anxiety, substance use disorders, and suicidality.
To help, Health Links® has partnered with the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment to launch CO-CARES, a new initiative to support healthcare and public health workers’ pandemic recovery.
If you are a healthcare or public health provider in CO - you are eligible to take advantage of these free programs. Read on for how to access them.
Toolkits Provided by Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine (PALTC)
Toolkits Provided by Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine (PALTC)
Everyone knows that November is the beginning of the holiday season, but did you also know it's respiratory virus season? One of AMDA’s main goals this time of year is to ensure your residents and staff are vaccinated for COVID-19, influenza, and Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV). We have some valuable resources to help with these efforts, including Respiratory Syncytial Virus Vaccination in PALTC: Resources for Clinicians and the COVID-19 Vaccination and Therapeutics in PALTC Toolkit: Resources for Clinicians. Get more information about them and other Society resources below.
Maintaining Vaccine Safety and Efficacy
Maintaining Vaccine Safety and Efficacy
Proper vaccine storage and handling are key to maintaining vaccine potency. Learn best practices with these vaccine temperatures and vaccine storage equipment videos.
Provide Evidence-Based Pain Care
Provide Evidence-Based Pain Care
Prescription pain relievers remained the most commonly misused prescription drug in the United States in 2021. Review the 2022 CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Pain to reduce the risks of opioid therapy and improve pain care in this webinar. Earn free CE.
Protect Your Patients During Respiratory Virus Season
Protect Your Patients During Respiratory Virus Season
The CDC recommends the seasonal 2023–2024 flu vaccine and updated 2023–2024 COVID-19 vaccine for everyone 6 months and older. Talk with your patients about these vaccines. They’re the most effective way to protect them from the worst outcomes this respiratory virus season.
Medicare pays for:
Find out when your patient is eligible for these vaccines. If you need help, contact your eligibility service provider.
More Information:
Office of Minority Health Immunization and Vaccine Resources webpage
Medicare Part D Vaccines (PDF) fact sheet
Flu shots and Medicare & Coronavirus: Get information for your patients
The link to the video (above) will help to understand the need and importance of medical record documentation to support the services billed. Watch this video (created in conjunction with the CERT Task Force(s)) to learn more about what the CERT program has identified as leading documentation errors, and what providers and physicians can do to more thoroughly document the patient's medical record.
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