Home Health Line
06/04/2012

Tailor your face-to-face education to the needs of specialists to get better compliance results from those referral sources. 

06/04/2012

Ongoing challenges such as the OASIS-C learning curve and long travel times to patient homes continue to affect clinician productivity, but many agencies have found ways to improve. 

06/04/2012

Agency productivity also has been impacted by the face-to-face encounter requirement, but that impact has been felt in the office rather than the field.

06/04/2012

Help your referring physicians capture more than $100 per month per home health patient by educating them on correct documentation for care plan oversight (CPO). In turn, physicians may be more willing to send patients your way.

06/04/2012

The results of the voluntary hospice quality reporting period are in and provide an overview of the patient-care measures hospices across the country are tracking.

06/04/2012

Flexible productivity expectations and scheduling based on individual clinicians’ needs have helped Partners in Home Care in Missoula, Mont. grow its productivity for nurses and therapists.

06/04/2012

The data below show that most disciplines underperform when compared to their productivity expectations. However, they also show that clinicians have generally improved on productivity over the past year.

06/04/2012

Delaying ICD-10 implementation until 2014 would provide badly needed relief to providers.

06/04/2012

The home health industry now has a uniform cost-reporting format that could prove Medicare isn’t overpaying agencies and save you money on professional help with cost reports.

06/04/2012

Recovery audit contractor (RAC) Connolly has announced it will audit home health episodes where the request for anticipated payment (RAP) has no associated final claim in the system.

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