Home Health Line
10/17/2011

The certainty of more outside scrutiny into your therapy practices combined with the expected removal of therapy utilization as a case-mix factor could be setting a trap for agencies unsure

10/17/2011

When LHC Group’s chief compliance officer spoke to attendees of the National Association for Home Care & Hospice’s 30th Annual Meeting & Exposition about billing compliance, he first addressed the elephant in

10/17/2011

The HHS Office of Inspector General’s (OIG) Work Plan for fiscal year 2012 includes five new home health initiatives and one hospice initiative, giving agencies insight into where the OIG’s

10/17/2011

Home health agencies must educate themselves on the newly revised CMS survey protocols now or face a higher risk of deficiencies on their next survey, CMS nurse consultant Patricia Sevast

10/17/2011

CMS released an update to the Medicare Claims Processing Manual Oct. 7 which reiterates that hospices must discharge patients from the Medicare benefit if face-to-face encounters don’t occur timely.

10/17/2011

California providers might be facing a Supreme Court majority that won’t support their pending challenge of Medi-Cal rate cuts, if comments from the bench during Oct. 3 oral arguments on

10/17/2011

The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission is sending its proposal for a $150-per-episode copay to Congress as part of new recommendations on how to replace the sustainable growth-rate (SGR) formula for

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