Home Health Line
08/31/2009
Here’s a new concern for agencies that equip clinicians with laptops or hand-held-devices: A privacy breach-notification rule just made final by HHS means any HHA that hasn’t encrypted patient information
08/31/2009
All home health staffers in New York state will be required to get a seasonal flu vaccine before Nov. 30, a move that other states could follow.
08/31/2009
CMS has released an updated version of the Abt Associates analysis that underlies its controversial case-mix adjustments – a step the National Association for Home Care & Hospice believes could help in
08/31/2009
The economic downturn has caused financial distress for family caregivers, and some HHAs are helping patients by providing more social support services and charity visits.
08/31/2009
HHA owners plead guilty to pay-for-referral schemes. Two of the six Detroit-area HHA owners accused earlier this year of participating in one of the largest home health pay-for-referrals schemes ever
08/31/2009
The average number of social work visits per episode for the 30 most common HHRGs has increased dramatically.

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