Home Health Line
06/07/2010

In 2009, the Visiting Nurse Association of Central Jersey was looking for a new chief strategy officer to oversee business development for the 1,700 employee agency.

06/07/2010

The final changes to the FY2011 ICD-9-CM code set shows further evidence of a drive toward greater specificity in advance of the transition to ICD-10, coding experts say.

06/07/2010

Timeline for claims may be shorter than expected. The shorter, 12-month period for filing Medicare claims after the date of service (HHL 4/12/10) actually could be as little as 10

06/07/2010

Home health agencies are doing better in challenging adverse administrative law judge rulings these days. The reason is an unexpected source of help – the Medicare appeals council.

06/07/2010

A House of Representatives vote to avoid the 21% reduction in what Medicare pays for physician services, including care-plan oversight and home health certification/recertification, doesn’t mean the issue finally has

06/07/2010
A review of the Cleveland agency’s processes uncovered that its nurses were forgetting to document patient medications in the patients’ files or simply forgot to answer all of the questions

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