Home Health Line
11/10/2008
CMS has given the regional home health intermediaries until Feb. 2, 2009, to correct nine claims-processing errors triggered by the PPS changes.
11/10/2008
Publically held home health giants Amedisys and Gentiva reported strong third-quarter earnings at a time when the national economy appeared to be tumbling toward recession.
11/10/2008
The economy has had a negative impact on charitable donations, which could spell trouble for nonprofit home health agencies and hospices that rely on public contributions for their operating funds.
11/10/2008
A federal court in Philadelphia has frozen nearly $8.6 million held in nearly four dozen accounts and a safety deposit box controlled by individuals associated with Home Care Hospice, whose
11/10/2008
Agencies that want to keep clinicians during times of high gas prices have started paying mileage costs based on the mileage from the clinician’s homes.
11/10/2008
CMS takes another step toward tying patient satisfaction to home health payments. CMS has submitted the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) Home Health Care survey to the
11/10/2008
Although CMS has suggested that Medicare may be overpaying physicians for certifying and recertifying home health patients, it now says it merely will continue to analyze the issue and consider
11/10/2008
Claims-processing errors triggered by the new PPS – from multiple LUPA add-ons to “late” episodes paid as “early”– caused incorrect payments to agencies since Jan. 1. Below are the nine errors that RHHIs were directed to correct by Feb. 2, 2009, according to Change Request 6250, also known as Transmittal 397.
11/10/2008
Medicare’s outlier payments will swell to 8.1% of total home health payments this year and reach 10.3% next year – more than twice the 5% maximum prescribed by law, CMS projects

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