Home Health Line
07/13/2009
When it comes to reducing costly re-hospitalizations, some agencies prefer the transitional-care solutions being tested in a CMS demonstration rather than bundled payments.
07/13/2009
Sloppy cost reporting is one of the reasons HHAs are headed for Medicare rate cuts rationalized by the perception of fat Medicare profit margins, the National Association for Home Care
07/13/2009
During CMS’s three-year recovery audit contractor (RAC) demo, providers were successful with 35% of their appeals.
07/13/2009
Better order more personal protective equipment if you have less than four weeks’ worth of these supplies in stock.
07/13/2009
Create a billing calendar that’s available to all staff on a shared drive and you’ll help billers achieve an average days sales outstanding (DSO) of 45 days.
07/13/2009
Hospices update - While some hospices are including the physician’s certification of terminal illness (CTI) in patients’ plans of treatment (POTs), they no longer should do so. That’s the word from
07/13/2009
Data from the first full year of the 2008 PPS show that agencies are coding case-mix diagnoses more frequently.

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