Home Health Line
10/03/2011

Several healthcare trade associations are lobbying Congress to include a bill that would allow non-physician practitioners to sign off on home health services – including face-to-face encounters – in the deficit reduction

10/03/2011

The Community Living Assistance Services and Supports (CLASS) Act, a health care reform initiative that could add 600,000 disabled Medicaid beneficiaries to agencies’ patient census, may not survive the current

10/03/2011

Agencies seeking to reduce costly rehospitalizations may want to consider purchasing or leasing telehealth devices. If employed effectively, telehealth can cut costs even though the devices are not covered by

10/03/2011

Monitor your patients’ terminal status carefully or you may have to swallow the costs of care while you plan the discharge of a hospice patient who’s become ineligible for that

10/03/2011

Most home health agencies have been reporting Home Health Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HH-CAHPS) data for about a year and some improvements are visible, but the same

10/03/2011

Agencies have begun to receive letters from their Medicare administrative contractors, notifying them that they haven’t met the requirement to participate in the Home Health Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers

10/03/2011

CMS has announced the 2012 minimum amounts in contention for administrative law judge (ALJ) hearings and judicial review. The amounts will be $130 for the ALJ level and $1,350 for

10/03/2011
The financial impact of the face-to-face encounter requirement is hitting home for agencies nationwide as they see the number of days between the end of an episode and the filing

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