Home Health Line
05/12/2008
The risk is about to rise dramatically for Florida agencies that pay for referrals and pursue other fraudulent strategies that have made home health in the Sunshine State notorious.
05/12/2008
Infrequent surveys and the lack of CMS oversight has allowed some hospices to violate regulations.
05/12/2008
The Hospice Wage Index for fiscal year 2009 proposed by CMS will decrease the wage index for hospices in 80.8% of counties nationwide in its first year, according to an
05/12/2008
CMS testing online personal health records (PHR). Medicare beneficiaries in South Carolina are pilot testing a consumer-controlled online tool that would give them access to information about their medical conditions,
05/12/2008
A recently released Abt Associates technical report on the PPS overhaul has given the National Association for Home Care & Hospice reason to believe the final PPS rule wasn’t the “natural
05/12/2008
Record-high gas prices across the country have forced agencies to make operational changes such as raising mileage reimbursement rates to prevent losing clinicians, recent HHL data show.

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