Home Health Line
01/25/2010

There’s a strong possibility that the Jan. 19 upset by Massachusetts Republican Scott Brown in the Senate race has killed the chance for broad health care reform legislation this year.

01/25/2010
The Detroit area’s latest case of home health fraud offers a lesson for law-abiding HHAs: If a patient referred to your agency says, “No thanks, I’m sticking with the agency
01/25/2010
MedPAC has no way to assess hospice quality of care, because there’s no publicly available data that covers all hospices. But that could change soon.
01/25/2010
With education and guidance, your physical therapists can perform the medication reviews that are part of OASIS-C, saving your agency the $100 it might pay a nurse for a non-billable
01/25/2010

Participation in the CMS pay-for-performance demonstration project earned one agency a check for $33,000.

01/25/2010

Changing your company’s mandatory nurse preceptor program into a voluntary one might be the way to slow employee turnover.

01/25/2010
by: Steve Everhart

Stop. Call a timeout, take a step back and start a thorough and detailed assessment of your business.

01/25/2010
If your agency is focused solely on teaching patients how to prevent falls and hospitalizations, you might be missing a key opportunity – teaching caregivers.

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