Home Health Line
09/23/2013
Federal minimum wage and overtime protections will be extended to almost all home health care workers beginning January 2015, the U.S. Labor Department announced on Sept. 17. 
09/23/2013
Home health care agencies must adopt different forms by Dec. 9 to notify Medicare beneficiaries about services they seek that Medicare will not cover or to inform them about services in their plan of care that will be reduced or discontinued.
09/23/2013
Nearly one quarter of agencies that responded to a recent HHL survey said they plan to change existing staff responsibilities to minimize productivity losses in ICD-10.
09/23/2013
Rather than reimbursing clinicians for miles driven, consider leasing cars, but avoiding the hassles that come with it, by hiring a company to manage your fleet.
09/23/2013
The owner of an Arlington, Texas-based home health agency, who claimed more than $40 million in medically unnecessary home health services, has been sentenced to more than 10 years in prison and ordered to pay nearly $25.5 million in restitution.
09/23/2013
CMS has indefinitely delayed the implementation of a face-to-face requirement for certain durable medical equipment (DME) supplies.
 
09/23/2013
Nearly half of the denials Medicare administrative contractor Palmetto GBA issues are for face-to-face encounter requirements not met.
 
09/23/2013
The table below gives a brief description of situations requiring notice and lists the proper replacement notice

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