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Beware This Discharge Provision In New COPs

Published on Fri Oct 10, 2014

Aide and HIPAA changes may bring new headaches, too. At first glance, the proposed Conditions of Participation’s attention to patient discharges should please home health agencies, says Washington, D.C.- based health care attorney Elizabeth Hogue. Under a new standard at §484.50(d), an HHA could only transfer, discharge, or terminate care when: (1) the HHA could no longer meet the patient’s [...]
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