Home Health Line Breaking News
05/23/2018
Two Hospice CAHPS measures ticked upward by 1% each in the latest refresh of Hospice Compare.
05/23/2018
The owner of a Michigan home health agency admitted to paying illegal kickbacks to recruiters and billing Medicare for claims obtained through those kickbacks, according to a release from the Department of Justice.
05/23/2018
Honor, a tech-savvy private duty startup, is pumping newly secured $50 million in funding into the expansion of an existing partner network, according to a MedCity News report.
05/21/2018
High turnover continues to plague the private duty industry, reaching 66.7% in 2017, according to a newly released benchmarking study by Home Care Pulse of Rexburg, Idaho.
05/18/2018
CMS is working to resolve a claims system issue that, if left unresolved, may cause confusion for home health patients.
05/17/2018
A new document intended to provide hospice quality reporting-related updates from January 2018 through March 2018 is now available at https://go.cms.gov/2jWNZvC.
05/17/2018
Results of a new DecisionHealth survey show that the revised Home Health Conditions of Participation (CoPs) have had a greater impact on agencies’ productivity than any other regulation in the past year.
05/17/2018
CMS on May 16 released its latest refresh of Hospice Compare.
05/16/2018
Home health visits that are longer than usual by just one minute reduce the risk of hospital readmission by 8%, a study from the National Bureau of Economic Research shows.
05/14/2018
While home health aide is one of the fastest growing occupations nationwide, a new report shows that growth will fall even shorter of meeting the increasing demand than some anticipated.

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