Bureau Talk

Home Care

March 2001

• Criminal Background - Employee Disqualification Checks
• Hepatitis B Vaccination
• OBQM Reports
• Social Security Act Amended
• Medicare Home Health Benefit
• P.T.A.'s Serving Home Health Patients
• Agencies Seeking Initial Certification
• Advance Beneficiary Notice
• Social Security Act
• Use of Short-Term General Inpatient Level of Care
• Hospice Regulations
• OPT/OSP - Services Provided

June 2001

• New Website and New Department Name
• Family Care Safety Register Background Checks
• Adult Care Centers - Information on Licensed Centers
• OPTs - Social and Vocational Services
• New State Hospice Regulations
• OBQM Reports
• Adell Peterson - Retirement
• Home Health Plan of Correction
• Qualifications - Home Health Administrator
• Expansions
• Home Health and Hospice Councils Have New Members

September 2001

• Hospice State Regulations Implemented September 1, 2001
• Spiritual Counselor Defined
• Agency Expansions
• Home Health Direct Qualifying Service
• Home Health Agencies - Medical Supplies
• Credentialing Requirement for Psychiatric Home Health Care
• OASIS - MO440
• Complaint Hotline Number
• 4 CSR 220-2.010
• Issuing Licenses
• OPT Information
• Delegation to and Supervision of Unlicensed Assistive Personnel
• Cost Reports
• Retirements
• Coding Guidelines for HHAs To Use Under PPS

December 2001

• Medicare Providers and CMS 855 Form
• New Pharmacy Rule
• Psychiatric Nursing for Home Health Agencies
• Home Health and Hospice Statistical Reports
• OASIS Monthly Transmission
• Licensed Only Agencies of Out-of-State Medicare Providers
• Outpatient Physical Therapy
• Scope of Practice of a Physical Therapist
• Qualifying Services for Home Health Agencies
• E-Mail Web Site
• Standing Orders
• Linda Grotewiel - New Bureau Administrator