Home Health Line
12/06/2010

Can a hospitalist sign the plan of care when he or she certifies home health and documents the face-to-face visit?

12/06/2010

An exclusive first look at data from the Home Health Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HH-CAHPS) voluntary “dry run” shows agency scores lagged behind on “specific-care issues.”

12/06/2010

How well-supplied with durable medical equipment, prosthetics, orthotics and supplies (DMEPOS) will beneficiaries be when successful bidders become the sources for most of those supplies in nine initial markets?

12/06/2010

New Medicaid programs authorized by the health care reform law could put home health agencies in charge of coordinating patients’ care – and pay them for it.

12/06/2010

A hospice could be at risk for CMS survey deficiencies if staff at a skilled nursing facility where a hospice patient lives do not perform their own assessments.

12/06/2010

Your agency now has a new self-disclosure tool to avoid Medicare recoupments when your agency forgets to renew a contract with a referring physician with whom your agency has a

12/06/2010

Physicians will continue to dodge, until Jan. 1, the 23% physician cut called for under the existing practitioner payment formula (HHL 7/5/10). That’s thanks to legislation that unanimously passed the

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