Home Health Line
08/16/2010

Are you apprehensive about the few days CMS would allow for home health patients to have face-to-face encounters with community- based physicians or affiliated non-physician practitioners?

08/16/2010

With few words from CMS on the topic, agencies and software vendors are taking PECOS-related matters into their own hands.

08/16/2010

The report that CMS used as its basis for proposing the drastic 4.75% cut in average home health reimbursement rates is flawed, industry experts say.

08/16/2010

Try tying a component of compliance, such as turning in documentation on time, to your staff’s merit raises and you could increase by 40% the number of clinicians who comply.

08/16/2010

Government efforts to scrub Miami’s reputation as the nation’s Medicare fraud capital have advanced another step with the indictment of a Miami physician, six nurses, two patient recruiters and a

08/16/2010

The Medicare trust fund – which pays hospital claims and about 50% of Medicare’s home health reimbursement – won’t run out of money until 2029. That’s 12 years later than previously projected.

08/16/2010

Circle the disciplines involved in each patient’s care then write “yes” or “no” in each column based on whether the clinician completed the measures.

08/16/2010

Offer your caregivers a “better-than-vacation” benefit and you will achieve a superior retention rate, says Pat Drea, vice president of operations for the Visiting Angels - Living Assistance franchisor based in

08/16/2010

Proposed payment cuts could threaten to put 18% of Medicare- certified agencies out of business, according to the results of a recent HHL survey.

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