Home Health Line
09/07/2009
Even those agencies that currently conduct patient-satisfaction surveys could have their work cut out for them with CMS’s new survey requirements.
09/07/2009
Agencies need to take steps now to improve patient-satisfaction scores so they’re ready when CMS publicly reports them.
09/07/2009
The threat of an H1N1 outbreak this fall has forced some agencies to start their seasonal flu vaccine clinics earlier.
09/07/2009
The government is likely to give H1N1 vaccines free of charge to providers who help immunize patients, according to new guidance released this week from CMS.
09/07/2009
You could lose $18,000 or more a year if you don’t have a color-coded map of your contract therapists’ designated territories.
09/07/2009
Two DME issues approved for RAC review. CMS has approved two DME issues that will be the focus of review by Connolly healthcare, recovery audit contractor for Region C. The
09/07/2009
This table corrects data that ran in the Aug. 31, 2009, issue of HHL in which the labels for the aide and MSW columns were switched. The OCS data represent 300,000 episodes that ended in the first quarter of 2009.
09/07/2009
Your agency could cut its marketing costs by using an outside marketer instead of hiring its own.

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