Home Health Line
10/05/2009
Demand for H1N1 flu vaccines has caused an unexpected reduction in seasonal flu vaccines that is threatening flu clinics sponsored by more than 100 VNAs across the country.
10/05/2009
Better work with physicians to get newly required documentation of a patient’s need for hospice or your payments could be denied starting Oct. 1.
10/05/2009
Possible scenario: Your agency wins an appeal at the administrative law judge level (ALJ), which means it actually didn’t owe Medicare $700,000 in payments your contractor recouped two years earlier.
10/05/2009
The uncertainty of health care reform has made it tough for HHAs to plan for the future.
10/05/2009
Correction: Hard copies of medical records can’t be kept at local drop sites in Louisiana because they lack Medicare approval and aren’t licensed by the state (HHL 9/28/09).
10/05/2009
Use this tool developed by Allscripts to determine the patient’s risk for falling and need for an initial therapy evaluation. It could help you avoid wasting valuable therapy resources on patients who don’t need therapy and ultimately improve your patient care and overall average case-mix weights.
10/05/2009
Refine the criteria you use to determine when patients should receive therapy evaluations and you could increase your agency’s average case-mix weight and provide better patient care.

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