Home Health Line
05/22/2017
Despite efforts to educate providers about maintenance therapy, utilization of it has dropped slightly in the home health industry.
05/22/2017
The Visiting Nurse Associations of America has worked to launch a new nationwide organization to give for-profit and nonprofit home health agencies and hospices another option.
05/22/2017
No matter how far a provider’s data may travel and through how many hands it may pass, the provider will be responsible if patient protected health information (PHI) is improperly disclosed.  
05/22/2017
The case of the registered nurse who wasn’t serves as a reminder to keep your licensure checks tight.
05/22/2017
A federal appeals court has granted the government’s request for an extension until June 30 to file a motion in a case involving whether to increase minimum salary requirements for overtime exemptions.
05/22/2017
by: Minneapolis-based ABILITY Network, Inc.
Agencies’ use of maintenance therapy decreased in 2016 compared to 2015, according to data from Minneapolis-based ABILITY Network, Inc. Agencies used the maintenance therapy G code for PT during 0.94% of standard PPS home health episodes in 2016 — after using it during 1.05% of episodes in 2015.

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