Home Health Line
01/18/2010
Power wheelchairs, a popular way of cheating Medicare because of their high cost, again are getting the attention of federal anti-fraud enforcers.
01/18/2010

The cut in the hospice inflation update now pending on Capitol Hill could be the first in a series of changes that Congress makes to contain Medicare costs for that

01/18/2010

Can a hospital favor its own HHA by designating nonaffiliated home health agencies as “vendors” and preventing them from seeing referred patients in the hospital?

01/18/2010

Agencies should be careful when using negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) on certain patients, because it could lead to serious complications or even death.

01/18/2010

Five-state Omni Home Care faces a judgment of some $5.5 million or more in a civil case brought against it by Performance Based Healthcare Solutions (PBHS), a Houston developer of

01/18/2010

P4P demo participants get rewards - CMS’s two-year pay-for-performance demonstration project, which ended in December, has generated $15.4 million in Medicare savings that were allocated among the 166 participating agencies that

01/18/2010
As the demands on caregivers continues to expand, agencies should consider how they can help caregivers help their patients.

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