Home Health Line
07/19/2010

<p> Home health agency participation in &ldquo;care teams&rdquo; that treat Medicare beneficiaries who are chronically ill but not home-bound may be tested by CMS sooner than expected.</p>

07/19/2010

Would CMS consider it a change of ownership under the 36-month rule if an owner transfers all of his agency’s stock to the same person but in increments equal to

07/19/2010

The recent heat wave that rolled through the East Coast forced agencies to get creative in their methods for protecting at-risk patients.

07/19/2010

A marketer without much home health experience might think it’s a good idea to take a nursing home administrator to a $300 dinner.

07/19/2010

Hospices nationwide are expanding and redeveloping their bereavement camps as a way to give back to the community and strengthen their reputations as healthcare providers.

07/19/2010

Effective compliance training “is not one-size-fits-all,” says home health attorney Robert Markette of Gilliland & Markette in Indianapolis.

07/19/2010

One quarter of agencies responding to a recent HHL survey say they have done nothing to prepare for the transition to ICD-10, despite the threat of claims rejections if they’re

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