Home Health Line
10/08/2007
Don’t get too comfortable if you’re lucky enough to hold a seat among those top 100 agencies nationwide that achieved a balance in quality outcomes, quality improvement and financial performance. Only 28% of the top 100 managed to make it on the list for two consecutive years, according to recent data complied by Seattle-based information company Outcome Concept Systems.
10/08/2007
Tap into a little-known niche service line called a travel health clinic and you could outstrip your projected net profit by more than 40% in one year.
10/08/2007
CMS's national average score for acute care hospitalization has slipped in its first-ever change since Home Health Compare launched in 2003, moving from 28% to 29% in CMS's September update.
10/08/2007
by: Burt Schorr
Expect an Office of Inspector look at the extent to which HHRGs ‘are accurate and supported by documentation in the medical record.” In its fiscal 2008 work plan, OIG says
10/08/2007
by: Burt Schorr
Although the House has passed a bill that would sharply cut Medicare funding for Medicare Advantage plans [HHL 7/30/07], that hasn’t slowed torrid growth in the number of plans that

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