Home Health Line
11/24/2014
The HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) will be checking the health screening records of Medicaid home health agencies to determine whether home visit staffers are being screened in accordance with federal and state requirements for controlling the spread of disease. 
 
11/24/2014
Among CMS’ two groups of approved Medicare accountable care organizations (ACOs) for which data are available — the 23 Pioneer ACOs in their second year, and the 220 Shared Savings Program ACOs completing their first year — the results have shown quality improvements but have not led to savings of consequence. 
 
11/24/2014
Overall demand for physical and occupational therapy assistants in the home health industry likely will increase next year as a direct result of a change in therapy reassessment requirements outlined in the final 2015 PPS rule.
 
11/24/2014
If predictions of a coming nurse shortage are correct, they could have the greatest consequence for hospices, which require compassion for the dying as well as state-registered nursing skills. 
 
11/24/2014
Make sure your agency’s governing body holds regular meetings and accurately documents what occurs during those meetings.
 
11/24/2014
by: Hospital & Healthcare Compensation Service
Physical therapists earn $40.67 an hour this year, a 1.78% increase from 2013, according to data from the Hospital & Healthcare Compensation Service in Oakland, N.J., which published the 2014-2015 HOMECARE Salary & Benefits Report in cooperation with the National Association for Home Care & Hospice. 

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