Home Health Line
01/21/2013
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) is set to repeat previous recommendations on home health payments in its March report to Congress.
 
01/21/2013
Having trouble enforcing your deadlines for clinician paperwork? Narrow Medicare margins make payment reductions for employees a tempting option, but an incentive system that incorporates quality and productivity benchmarks your agency cares about may be your best bet.
 
01/21/2013
The following excerpt from the 2012-2013 HomeCare Salary & Benefits Report shows the average salary and incentive bonus amounts paid to case managers/team leaders nationwide and in nine regions.
 
01/21/2013
All four Medicare administrative contractors (MACs) have reported that an issue is causing payment amounts to display incorrectly on the electronic remittance advice (ERA).
 
01/21/2013
The 2013 mergers and acquisition forecast for Medicare home health agencies is likely to follow a similar pattern as in 2011 and 2012. But expect one major difference: Growth in transactions involving hospitals and senior living facilities in response to the emergence of accountable care organizations (ACOs) and bundled payments.
 
01/21/2013
The data below show the total number of home health transactions in 2005 through 2011, the most recent year for which data were available.
 
01/21/2013
Patients’ ability to drive while under your care complicates the question of eligibility, but doesn’t automatically disqualify a patient from being considered homebound, experts say. Evaluate factors such as the frequency of drives and the effort it takes to get into the car to determine whether homebound status is still present.
 
01/21/2013
Look for creative ways to make staffing and supplies for hospice care in facilities more cost-efficient as reimbursement rates for hospice enter a downward trend.
 

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