Home Health Line
03/16/2009
Your agency may be fully compliant with the HIPAA privacy rules, but it happens HIPAA no longer is the final word on guarding patient information.
03/16/2009
Agencies continue to get dinged in state surveys for care-planning and acceptance-of-care deficiencies, the latest CMS data show.
03/16/2009
Sutter VNA & Hospice used key concepts from the book Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done to roll out a care transition program that gained as many as 1,000 new
03/16/2009
When one agency learned that two of its patients who died recently were registered sex offenders, agency managers wondered what policies they should have to protect clinicians who could be
03/16/2009
Home health agencies will see no further delays in adoption of ICD-10 code sets and electronic transaction standards.
03/16/2009
Correction: It’s Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius. HHL got it wrong in the March 3 issue.
03/16/2009
The subjectivity of “homebound” or the number of therapy visits a patient needs could make agencies vulnerable to denials now that recovery audit contractors (RACs) have begun auditing Medicare’s home

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