Home Health Line
09/29/2008
Beneficiaries have two new CMS regulations to guard them against deceptive or high-pressure marketing tactics by Medicare plans and their agents when the fiscal 2009 Medicare Advantage enrollment period begins
09/29/2008
Make sure your clinicians and coders know about the almost 40 new case-mix codes that could affect your reimbursement, starting Oct. 1.
09/29/2008
CMS surveyors and intermediaries are paying closer attention when agencies write “0” home health visit frequencies on patients’ plans of care, leading to confusion and survey deficiency risks.
09/29/2008
Give your referrals sources a satisfaction survey and you could improve your referral source satisfaction by as much as 10 percentage points.
09/29/2008
The home health industry’s average length of patient stay has grown steadily between 2001 and 2006, but the recent trends in Medicare Advantage and physician habits are leading to a

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