Home Health Line
04/05/2010
Health care reform finally is here – and so are its provisions that could mean tax credits for small agencies that offer employee health insurance. But ambiguities in the provisions open
04/05/2010
Home health agencies across the country are finding ways to stave off the productivity declines caused by new OASIS-C requirements.
04/05/2010
Agencies are getting a clearer picture of where they need to focus ongoing clinician and auditor training – and it varies by discipline.
04/05/2010
Make sure your OASIS-C quality assurance auditors know that M2002 (medication follow-up) requires a physician response within one calendar day for the clinician to answer “yes.”
04/05/2010

A small agency should count it’s patients carefully to determine if it qualifies for an exemption from CMS’s upcoming CAHPS requirements.

04/05/2010
In a recent advisory, investment firm Stifel Nicolaus changed its recommendations from “buy” to “hold” for Amedisys, and called immediate prospects for home health “clouded.”
04/05/2010
Increases in visit weights for start-of-care and discharge visits were the most popular changes, according to 183 responses to HHL’s 2010 productivity survey (see below for more). Agencies say those

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