Home Health Line
11/21/2011
Begin to prepare for the stark reality of the home health copay.
11/21/2011

Dissatisfaction with the performance of their Home Health Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HH-CAHPS) vendors is causing hundreds of agencies to switch.

11/21/2011

The Department of Labor will release a proposed rule soon which could raise the cost of providing private duty companionship services by making significant changes to the so-called companionship exemption.

11/21/2011
Don’t wait for private duty agencies to call you. Instead, take initiative and develop relationships with your local private duty companies to drive referrals.
11/21/2011

The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments over the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act in March, with a decision expected by June 2012, according to news reports. The 2010

11/21/2011

Help patients avoid hospitalizations by leaving this simple tool in their home. The tool, used by Bayada Nurses in Moorestown, N.J. and shared during a recent Avalere Health webinar, can help your cardiac patients monitor their symptoms and stay on top of important warning signs.

11/21/2011

Seven percent of the 169 agencies responding to HHL’s final rule survey say they have received a letter from CMS indicating their payments will be reduced by 2% in 2012 due to patient satisfaction reporting mistakes.

11/21/2011
A look at the top ten most commonly used rehospitalization strategies this year shows the agencies with the best rehospitalization outcomes and those with the worst scores employed those strategies

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