Home Health Line
08/20/2012

The combination of another proposed CMS rate reduction and the looming 2% congressional sequestration cut is causing home health agencies to tighten their belts once again.

08/20/2012

In light of the new hospital readmission penalties that take effect Oct. 1, develop an assessment system that identifies high-risk patients to more effectively market yourself to hospitals.

08/20/2012

Agencies are looking to supplies and salaries to help cut costs as they cope with yet another round of Medicare rate cuts.

08/20/2012

Make sure you disclose any management or ownership relationships with other companies on cost reports to prevent penalties under the False Claims Act.

08/20/2012

Train your marketers to become experts on your specialty program and increase your monthly referrals for those specialties.

08/20/2012

Make sure staff take responsibility for being on time for visits to lower your liability risk when patients suffer harm while your employee was supposed to be in the home.

08/20/2012

Kaiser Health News has created a chart that shows readmission penalties for fiscal 2013 by hospital.

CMS has posted two user guides for hospice quality reporting.

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