Home Health Line
06/08/2015
Don’t automatically disqualify every job applicant to your agency who has a conviction on her criminal background check.
 
06/08/2015
Letting clients and their families know that reverse mortgages exist as another option available to pay for care could help people who don’t have enough money in the bank to get the care they need.
 
06/08/2015
by: National Research Corporation, Seattle
The average of clinical case-mix points plummeted to 3.30 in the first quarter of 2015, data from Seattle-based National Research Corporation show. The average had been 8.27 for all of 2014. 
 
06/08/2015
The nationwide review of every home health agency’s face-to-face documentation has yielded a denial rate of 49.2%.
06/08/2015
CMS has released the latest home health grouper, which will be used to determine payments effective Oct. 1, 2015. 
06/01/2015
The growing number of denials Medicare administrative contractor (MAC) Palmetto GBA issued last quarter involving episodes with 20 or more therapy visits illustrates the need for agencies to educate quality managers about proper therapy documentation and standards.
 
06/01/2015
The number of home health agencies and hospices sold in the final quarter of 2014 dipped to 27 from 40 in the same quarter the previous year. And the slide continued in the first three months of 2015 — 21 home health and hospice providers were sold, down from 35 a year earlier
 
06/01/2015
If SEC-required financial statements of four publicly held home health companies are an accurate guide, overall industry profit margins shrank dramatically between 2010 and 2014.
 
06/01/2015
To ensure agencies understand the new patient certification requirements outlined in the 2015 PPS final rule, CMS has decided to conduct pre-payment reviews of claims for episodes beginning on or after Aug. 1, 2015.
 
06/01/2015
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) is seeking to alter the method CMS intends to use in rating home health agency quality of care.
 

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