Home Health Line
05/26/2014
Nearly 70% of home health agencies have seen a decrease in unplanned hospitalizations due to telehealth use, according to data from the National State of the Industry Report for Home Health and Hospice produced by Fazzi Associates.
05/26/2014
About 29% of home health agencies used telehealth in 2013, an increase of nearly 6% from 2009, according to data from the National State of the Industry Report for Home Health and Hospice. 
05/26/2014
Costs are becoming less of a barrier for agencies looking to shoot and post videos on their websites.
 
 
05/26/2014
A recent study shows that the push toward reducing readmissions has led to an increase in telehealth use among home health agencies.
 
 
05/26/2014
The median national rate that private duty agencies charge for homemaker services is $19 an hour in 2014, up 4.11% over the previous year, according to the 2014 Genworth Cost of Care Survey. That increase may be the start of even larger trends in the future.
 
 
05/26/2014
You could be facing radical changes in your current OASIS-based evaluations of home health patients under a “post-acute care transformation” bill being drafted by the House and Senate Medicare committees.
 
 
05/26/2014
The median average cost for homemaker services is $43,472
05/26/2014
One way to cut costs and improve productivity may be to reevaluate your processes around recertification visits and related paperwork.
 
 

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