Home Health Line
07/27/2009
For busy clinicians who use point-of-care devices, copying old notes and pasting them into current charts can be a powerful temptation.
07/27/2009
Good Shepherd Home Health and Hospice Agency shows this laminated sheet to referral sources to help them understand the differences between patients appropriate for hospice and home health.
07/27/2009
The mandate for employer-provided health coverage under health care reform bills pending in the House and Senate threatens to hit many HHAs as hard as or harder than the Medicare
07/27/2009
A pro-hospice provision included in the health care reform bill cleared by the House Ways & Means Committee on July 17 would postpone CMS’s controversial change in the hospice wage index
07/27/2009
Palmetto conducts hospice probe reviews. About 20% of hospice providers billing to regional home health intermediary Palmetto GBA will receive probe reviews for longer non-cancer lengths-of-stay, a Palmetto spokesman says.
07/27/2009
HHAs fear double-digit profit slumps, the need for salary freezes in 2009 and a forced reduction in visits per episode as a result of home health proposals in the bill
07/27/2009
Your agency’s medical director could be a secret weapon to ensure that physicians refer patients to hospice at the correct time.

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