Home Health Guide to Crafting a Compliant Plan of Care: A Hands-On Approach to Proving Skilled Need, First Edition

$299.00
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DHPABPOC26^1

Created by members of the AHCC Documentation Integrity Committee and the AHCC advisory Board, this guide will support your agency through the process of creating compliant and meaningful plans of care for each patient.

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ISBN 978-1-963512-74-8
Pages 118
Publish Date Feb 06, 2026

Home Health Guide to Crafting a Compliant Plan of Care: A Hands-On Approach to Proving Skilled Need, First Edition

AHCC and DecisionHealth’s Home Health Guide to Crafting a Compliant Plan of Care supports your agency through the process of creating compliant and individualized plans of care for each patient.

Developing an individualized plan of care (POC) for every home health patient can be challenging, but it is a vital step to providing consistent and quality care that improves patients’ health and optimizes outcomes.

Get tips, strategies and best practices for creating a plan of care that includes interventions and goals to support the need for skilled services. This guide includes plan of care considerations for 26 of the most common conditions and services seen in home health, including:

  • Anticoagulation Therapy
  • Catheter Care
  • Depression
  • Diabetes
  • Falls
  • Infection Control
  • Medications
  • Oxygen Therapy
  • Pain
  • Pressure Ulcers
  • Wounds

Plus: You'll also get sample visit documentation that shows how to tie the services provided back to the POC.

When you purchase this book, your staff will be armed and ready to:

  • Increase efficiency in care planning
  • Create compliant and thorough plans of care that support the need for skilled care
  • Establish unique patient-centered goals to treat and manage common conditions and improve outcomes
  • Develop appropriate interventions to meet patient goals and prevent hospitalization
  • Document visits to support the POC and safeguard reimbursement
  • Identify POC and documentation shortfalls to prevent denials and ADRs

 

About the Authors

Home Health Guide to Crafting a Compliant Plan of Care: A Hands-On Approach to Proving Skilled Need, 2026 was written by members of the Association of Home Care Coding & Compliance Documentation Integrity Committee:

  • Ashley Benson, RN, COQS, CHHCM, HCS-D, HCS-O, LSSGB, Home Health and Hospice Consultant
  • Elise Christensen, HCS-D, HCS-H, HCS-O, COS-C, Coding Manager, Hartford Healthcare
  • Christina Crumbley, RN, MSN, HCS-D, HCS-O, CEO/Owner, Tidal Healthcare Consulting
  • Ashley Cunningham-Baker, MSN, RN, HCS-D, HCS-H, HCS-O, Director Coding and OASIS Resource, Pennant, Owner/Operator EiSCEND Consulting
  • Kelly Kavanaugh, RN, HCS-D, HCS-H, HCS-O, BCHH-C, Independent Home Health and Hospice Consultant owner of The OTB Group
  • Lisa Selman-Holman, JD, BSN, RN, HCS-D, HCS-H, HCS-O, VP Education and Quality, McBee
  • Apryl Swafford, RN, BSN, COS-C, HCS-D, HCS-H, HCS-O, QA Manager, SimiTree Healthcare Consulting

With additional content and SME review from AHCC Advisory Board Chair:

  • Sherri Parson, RN, HCS-D, HCS-O, HCS-H, COS-C, CEO, Infusion Health