Home Health Line
04/19/2010
There’s a new requirement for physicians to have face-to-face visits with patients within six months preceding a home health referral, “or other reasonable time frame decided by CMS.”
04/19/2010

CMS’s two-year post-acute care demonstration indicates that a universal patient-assessment tool may reduce hospitalizations and save Medicare money.

04/19/2010

Home health agencies could experience more rigorous state surveys under new survey protocols CMS is preparing for use as soon as next month.

04/19/2010

Hospices and consultants have started to analyze how a “U-shaped” payment model might affect payments, and it doesn’t look good for hospice patients cared for in the home.

04/19/2010
Look for details about hospice-related health reform provisions in the proposed home health PPS rule, expected in August.
04/19/2010

CMS’s standardized patient-satisfaction tool has been translated into only five languages, making agencies with large numbers of non-English speaking patients wonder whether it’s worth it to conduct the surveys at

04/19/2010

Don’t expect that 2.5% increase in overall home health rates that sweetened this year’s outlier payment changes to continue in 2011. Starting next year, in fact, the new health care

04/19/2010

Focus your private duty marketing efforts on elder law attorneys and trust officers, and you will hit a jackpot of untapped referral sources.

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