Home Health Line
06/15/2009
Cuts in state Medicaid budgets to meet recession-caused deficits are threatening significant revenue losses for many agencies that provide home support services to the elderly.
06/15/2009
Agencies that fail to repay overpayments could be at risk for costly penalties because of recent changes in the False Claims Act.
06/15/2009
Physicians have a new incentive to claim CPO payments – and to refer to HHAs that help them.
06/15/2009
Contact your software vendor “right away” to ask whether it includes privacy regulation updates in its contract.
06/15/2009
The final ICD-9-CM FY2010 code list CMS released contains some surprises, including a specification on a pressure ulcer code, the first-ever swine flu codes and traumatic brain injury codes.
06/15/2009
Clarification: The ABN tool that ran in the May 25 issue was based on one created by Sue Kruser when she worked for Sarasota Memorial Home Care.Quality improvement organizations merge.
06/15/2009
Some agencies are developing more sophisticated methods for weighting visits to help clinicians reach their productivity standards.

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