Home Health Line
09/20/2010

Most home health agencies will be excessively burdened by the face-to-face encounter requirement and will be unready for the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) surveys, according to

09/20/2010

CMS should consider waiving the hospice face-to-face encounter requirement in situations where the patient would suffer if care was delayed.

09/20/2010

Industry comments related to CMS’s proposed therapy requirements recommend that CMS:Require re-assessments “at least every 30 days” rather than at the 13th and 19th visit. That would give agencies greater

09/20/2010

Government witnesses at a House hearing Sept. 15 provided reasons why the competitive bidding process should run its course.

09/20/2010

Health care reform has triggered a growth in home health agency and hospital partnerships to reduce hospitalizations. But for some agencies, that concept dates back many years and has resulted

09/20/2010

Agencies that bill to Cahaba GBA beware: The intermediary denied the majority of claims for patients on service longer than 120 days with primary diagnoses of unspecified hypertension or COPD.

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