Home Health Line
11/14/2011

Two of the Big Four publicly traded home health companies announced that a combined 83 branches nationwide will be closed, sold or consolidated due to poor financial performance – a decision

11/14/2011
CMS has pushed back the completion of its Medicare enrollment revalidation effort to March 2015, giving Medicare administrative contractors (MACs) and providers an additional two years to go through the
11/14/2011
Medicare providers will no longer be required to complete several sections of a new, more extensive 855A enrollment form CMS issued in July, the federal Medicare agency announced Oct. 27.
11/14/2011
Agencies who have failed to get correct face-to-face encounter documentation from a physician despite multiple attempts may have a last-resort option: Report the physician to the Part B carrier or
11/14/2011

Are your clinicians actually spending the amount of time with patients that’s called for in plans of care?

11/14/2011
CMS will report the outcome measure “emergency department use without hospitalization” based on claims data starting in January, as proposed. However, that date is “contingent on the measure’s readiness for
11/14/2011

Home and community-based services (HCBS) as an alternative to more expensive nursing home care appear to be gaining popularity among states squeezed by recession-caused enrollment increases and precipitous declines in

11/14/2011
Home health productivity saw little to no change from 2010 to 2011 for all disciplines, with one notable exception: The average number of daily visits performed by therapy assistants declined

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