Hi, I’m Michael H. Cohen. I’m founding attorney at Cohen Healthcare Law Group. We provide legal strategies and solutions to businesses that accelerate health and wellness.

In today’s video, we’ll talk about some legal considerations for home health agencies. So like everybody else in healthcare, home health agencies face a lot of regulations. They need to be understood and they’ve got legal risks and everything needs to be managed.

So first, a home health agencies should implement comprehensive compliance program. We help the home health agency to develop policies and training to meet a slew of regulatory requirements and help them reduce their risk of audit.

Second, it’s really important to ensure that the staff is properly licensed. Do background checks. We’ve helped with hiring processes, employment law, to make sure that the caregivers met the state standards so that they could be, obviously, better workers.

And third: thorough documentation. Poor documentation can lead to bad results in lawsuits, so we help with record keeping protocols to facilitate compliance.

Without legal guidance, home health agency is really exposed to the regulators. They’re at their mercy. So you want to have all these planks in place to protect your home healthcare agency’s future.

If you’d like to dive deeper into any of the topics we’ve talked about today, reach out to us. Click below. We’d love to talk to you. We look forward to it.