Home Health Line
08/26/2013
Don’t ignore employee claims that supervisors or employees have made inappropriate sexual overtures against them. A recent case involving Help at Home shows that failure to act could cost you hundreds of thousands of dollars.
08/26/2013
Many home health agencies are turning to mileage tracking devices as a way to save thousands of dollars a year. And they find it’s an effective way to ensure that employees’ mileage is recorded accurately.
 
08/26/2013
Use the extra time you’ve gained from the one-year delay in the employer mandate to determine how many of your employees qualify for Medicaid.
 
08/26/2013
Identify all digital equipment that prints, copies or stores protected patient information and ensure that the data are erased from these devices on a regular basis.
08/26/2013
Westminster, Md.-based Carroll Home Care uses Mileage Advisor, a McKesson product that pulls data for patients including the address, time of visit and nurse, says Diane Link, the agency’s director.
08/26/2013
Home health agencies are not required to negotiate a business associate agreement with company that provides janitorial services, nor does the building owner who contracts for those services on behalf of tenants.
 
08/26/2013
More than one quarter of the 136 respondents in HHL’s 2013 Productivity Survey say employees at their agencies drive on average between 5,000 and 10,000 miles a year.
08/26/2013
Home health agencies that pay their nurses per visit plus extra pay aren’t exempt from minimum wage and overtime requirements, a federal judge ruled recently in a lawsuit brought by nurses working for Gentiva Health Services.

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