Home Health Line
09/01/2008
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released the proposed new ICD-10 code sets for procedures and diagnoses that will replace the current ICD-9-CM codes and cost agencies time
09/01/2008
Ninety-one percent of home health agencies expect their clinicians to use cell phones on the job, but only 44% provide the devices and pay the service charges for work-related use,
09/01/2008
Several factors – including job opportunities in other industries and per-diem payment offered by many agencies – make home health aides difficult to retain. But some agencies have found that something as
09/01/2008
Here are three of the best tips presented by speakers at the National Association for Home Care & Hospice’s “14th Annual Financial Management Conference and Exposition” in July.Develop a monthly scorecard
09/01/2008
Home health agencies have a new set of incorrect payments to track because of the latest claims-processing glitch, triggered by the PPS changes.
09/01/2008
Home care worker speaks at Democratic National Convention. Pauline Beck, a home care worker in Oakland, Calif., spoke Aug. 26 on the second night of the four-night Democratic National Convention
09/01/2008
The percentage of cases (19%) that had obesity as a risk factor in M0290 (high risk factors) was 4 percentage points higher in 2007 than in 2002, and the percentage

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