Home Health Line
08/02/2010

The pending changes in the PPS rule would not allow a referring physician from a hospital or skilled care facility to fulfill the new face-to-face visit requirement.

08/02/2010

Prepare to update your business-associate agreements to require partnering companies to comply with the HIPAA security rule, report breaches of patient information and have their own agreements with subcontractors.

08/02/2010

Patients with HIV, AIDS or certain psychiatric conditions may be excluded from CAHPS participation for agencies in certain states.

08/02/2010

This table shows the average number of clinical domain points for each of the related OASIS-C case-mix questions. For many of the items, the average number of clinical points decreased

08/02/2010

In 2008, Visiting Nurse Association of St. Luke’s uncovered it had let $230,000 in Medicare revenue fly out of the door over a six-month period, all because of LUPAs.

08/02/2010

CMS clarifies questions about payer changes, heart failure follow-up and patient noncompliance relating to functional items in the July update to its OASIS-C Q&As.

08/02/2010

Home health agencies could be headed for another round of trying to help patients panicked by the threat of losing local providers of oxygen, diabetic supplies and other medical products.

08/02/2010

When a young marketer recommended that The Homemakers Health Services join Facebook, the agency’s community relations director answered with one word: no.

08/02/2010

Hospices mentioned in proposed rule on patient-visitation requirements for hospitals. A proposed rule, published June 28, seeks to protect patient-visitation rights for patients in hospitals and possibly hospice. The proposed

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