Home Health Line
04/04/2016
Following a recent DecisionHealth webinar about how to comply with the face-to-face requirement and avoid denials during CMS’ ongoing “probe-and-educate” review, agencies asked 11 questions to attorney Robert Markette and clinical consultant Joe Osentoski. Here are the experts’ answers.
04/04/2016
Recent data reveal that a disproportionate percentage of agencies received 4.5 or 5 stars in areas including Miami, which has a reputation for being a hotbed of fraud.
04/04/2016
Coach clinicians to remain calm, validate dementia patients’ feelings and reduce agitation when faced with accusations of stealing.
04/04/2016
Upload your contacts onto Facebook and ask those people to like your agency’s page.
04/04/2016
A five-year demonstration CMS launched Jan. 1 is supposed to show whether hospice patients benefit when they receive curative care at the same time as palliative care, contrary to the palliative-only restriction currently part of the Medicare benefit.
04/04/2016
HHS’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has initiated the long-awaited second phase of its audit program.
04/04/2016
by: Seattle-based OCS HomeCare, now part of ABILITY Network Inc.
Nationwide, a mere 11% of agencies that received star ratings for quality of care provided had a rating of 4.5 or 5. But in Miami, 32% of agencies that received star ratings had a rating of 4.5 or 5, according to an analysis from Seattle-based OCS HomeCare, now part of ABILITY Network Inc.

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