Home Care Census Requirement

[NewHHA]

We are a new home care agency that is accredited by CHAP (Community Health Accreditation Program) and we have medicare provider number. Can someone please tell me if there is a minimum number of active patients we shoudl have in order to be accredited? Is there a separate Medicare requirement and separate CHAP requirement?

One person told me we should have 2 active and another said 7 active......don't know what the right answer is. Any information on this one??

Thank you!

[paradiseboundRN]

I think the requirement refers to obtaining your certification. Of course, when you are surveyed again you will probably need to have the same minimum number of charts for them to review. It used to be 7 actives charts and 10 charts total, at least 1 using each discipline (PT, OT, HHA). As far as I know, if you are CHAP certified then you are Medicare certified as well. Medicare does not do its own certification anymore, you have to go through CHAP or JACHO to be certified.

[nursepacific]

This original post is strange. It states they are accreditated by CHAPS, and already have a medicare provider number and want to know how many patients for the certification survey. They would have already had the required census to be accreditated in the first place