Home Health Line
12/14/2009
Florida’s Miami-Dade County retains its reputation as ground zero for Medicare outlier fraud. But agencies in 23 additional counties also may be the target of future reviews, the HHS Office
12/14/2009
Agencies considering giving their referring physicians free access to a portal that tracks their care plan oversight (CPO) time better proceed with caution to avoid violating anti-kickback and Stark prohibitions,
12/14/2009
Consider this scenario: Your home health agency provides rehab therapy to a hospice patient with terminal cancer who recently experienced a fall unrelated to the cancer.
12/14/2009
Hospice clinicians who complete documentation during their visits may count that time toward the new visit-reporting requirements, effective Jan. 1.
12/14/2009
An agency’s journey to improve rehospitalization rates using a new predictive modeling program led it down an unexpected path with many positive outcomes.
12/14/2009
CMS announces two timelines for publicly reporting OASIS-C measures. CMS will publicly report OASIS-C process measures on Home Health Compare for the first time in October 2010 (HHL 08/10/09). However,
12/14/2009
Use this form from Clearfield (Pa.) Hospital Home Health Services to help clinicians gather information needed to complete the OASIS-C process measures. Clinicians should check the relevant interventions and fax the form to physicians to confirm them.
12/14/2009
by: Barbara Akst
The first 30 seconds of your initial contact with prospective clients can make or break the sale.
12/14/2009
Contracts preventing clients from hiring away your caregivers are commonplace in the private duty industry, but many of them, including yours, may be unenforceable.
12/14/2009
The transfer OASIS form may have been a breeze for clinicians to complete in the past, but agencies fear the new OASIS-C version could take clinicians up to 90 minutes

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