Home Health Line
08/25/2014
A draft bipartisan bill to curb Medicare fraud and abuse would require agencies to have a minimum $50,000 of surety bond coverage as a condition of Medicare participation.
08/25/2014
Your claims will be rejected automatically, starting Jan. 1, if the dates of service listed on the claims overlap with dates when patients are in inpatient hospitals, skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) or swing beds for which swing bed claims have been filed.
08/25/2014
Communicate frequently with patients’ caregivers, especially for patients who live in hospitals and nursing homes, to improve scores on your Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) Hospice Survey, which becomes mandatory in April.
08/25/2014
One simple solution has helped an agency save more than $100,000 a year: Being able to fax electronic medical records to doctors through its computer system, without needing to print or mail anything.
08/25/2014
When Accredited Home Care and Accredited Home Health Services in southern California receives a call for private duty services, the agency’s operator will transfer the call to the agency’s “bat line,” a line with a distinct ring so employees know a potential private duty client is calling.
08/25/2014
Don’t wait to determine if patients’ Medicare Advantage plans require patients to provide copayments for home health services. You’re likely to lose a lot of money if you do.
08/25/2014
Hospices scored lower on “understanding the side effects of pain medication” than on any other hospice satisfaction factor in a 2013 study conducted by the RAND Corporation.

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