Bureau Talk

Home Care

April 2003

• Family Care Safety Registry New Web Page
• Hospice Volunteer Hours
• Home Health Comprehensive Assessment
• Criminal Background Checks
• Web Page
• Notifying the Bureau of Changes, Expansion, Branch and Extension Requests
• License Applications
• Home Health Quality Initiative (HHQI)
• OASIS Coordinator
• HIPAA
• Branch Identification Numbers

August 2003

• CMS Website
• HCRS Website
• Senate Bill 556 - Senior Care and Protection Act
• In-Patient Hospices
• Medicare Hospice Benefit
• CMS Clarifies Role of Nurse Practitioners Employed by Hospice Agencies
• Physical Therapists - Review of Medications
• One Time Social Worker Visits for Medicare HMO Patients
• Change of Ownerships

December 2003

• New Name - Unit of Home Care and Rehabilitative Standards
• Branch Identification Numbers
• Collection and Transmission of OASIS Data For Private Pay Patients
• FD&C Blue No. 1
• Surveyors Review/HIPAA Requirements for Privacy
• Coverage and Billing of Occupational Therapy Driving Evaluations
• Bereavement Assessments
• Hospice Billing
• Revocation and Discharge of Hospice Patients
• Nurses Allowed To Carry Alteplase
• Required Alzheimer's Training For Those Employed By Home Health
• What We Expect to See on a Plan of Correction
• New Members for Home Health and Hospice Advisory Councils
• Lisa Coots - Position of Interim Administrator