Home Health Line
09/06/2010

BlackBerries and other handheld devices offer home health nurses a speedy way to keep physicians and agencies up to date on changes in patients’ conditions. But under federal wage-and-hour law,

09/06/2010

While the health care reform law carves $117 billion out of Medicare payments to Medicare Advantage plans, home health agencies still face years of coping with below-fee-for-service plan payments, visit

09/06/2010

New York, the first state to mandate that health care providers billing Medicaid have “effective compliance programs,” could be a bellwether for what’s to come across the country.

09/06/2010

Referral sources in the Allentown, Pa., area know Susan Stump as “Sacred Heart Susan.” Stump, a marketer at Sacred Heart Home Care Services, says frequent face-to-face visits and other efforts

09/06/2010

Better brace for another round of confusion over how beneficiaries will get oxygen, diabetic supplies and other medical products under CMS’s latest effort to establish rates through competitive bidding.

09/06/2010

A Minnesota agency has learned the hard way its employees are entitled to overtime pay under federal wage-and-hour law even though its service area lies entirely within a single state.

09/06/2010

A doctor, a clinic owner and five home health care nurses plead guilty to Medicare fraud scheme in South Florida. Dr. Fred Dweck admitted to referring 858 Medicare recipients for

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