Home Health Line
11/02/2015
When contracting with therapists, make sure the company you are contracting from receives a list from your agency regarding its required competencies.
11/02/2015
The National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) hopes its latest survey results on the limitations of non-physician practitioners (NPPs) will help push a bill through Congress that would allow NPPs to authorize and certify Medicare coverage of home health services.
11/02/2015
For private duty agencies with 50 to 99 full-time equivalent employees, the not-so-good news is that the Jan. 1, 2016, deadline for providing health insurance coverage for 95% of  those employees, as required by the Affordable Care Act (ACA), is fast approaching after a two-year delay.
11/02/2015
by: Tweed Jeffries
Nearly one third of respondents to a recent Tweed Jeffries survey said they expect an insurance enrollment rate of only 5% or less in 2016.
10/26/2015
Provide a proactive approach to physical therapy. Doing so increases the chances that patients will perform their exercises when PTs aren’t around, and that will improve patients’ quality outcomes.
10/26/2015
The Office of Medicare Hearings and Appeals (OMHA) is planning a two-phase expansion of a pilot project to reduce the massive backlog of appeals at the administrative law judge (ALJ) level.
10/26/2015
Consider adopting a shared governance model in which employees from across your agency’s departments identify process or quality issues, develop projects in teams to improve these issues and work to successfully carry them out.
10/26/2015
Cyberinsurance is increasingly viewed as an important tool in a health care provider’s arsenal to protect against electronic data breaches and security issues. But now that claims are beginning to be filed, some insurers are challenging their obligations to cover cyber losses.
10/26/2015
Follow these steps to reduce the risk of your cyberinsurer not covering you should an event occur.
10/26/2015
In comments submitted to CMS, agencies expressed concern with the proposed electronic clinical template created for doctors to use when documenting face-to-face encounters.

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