Home Health Line
01/05/2015
More than 68% of agencies will spend more on education and training in 2015 than they did in 2014, according to the 280 respondents to HHL's 2015 Trends Survey. Only 29% of agencies will spend more on recruitment and hiring.
01/05/2015
View HHL's 2015 regulatory calendar.
12/31/2014
Connolly LLC will serve as the national recovery audit contractor (RAC) for home health, hospice and durable medical equipment (DME) claim reviews, CMS announced Dec. 30. The announcement marks the official RAC re-start of home health claims reviews.
 
 
12/23/2014
The U.S. Congress has agreed that CMS, within its 2016 budget request, should “quantify and explain how the policy directing physicians to conduct face-to-face certifications for home health care has prevented fraud, increased access to health care and impacted costs to the Medicare and Medicaid programs.”
 
 
12/22/2014
Agencies will need to place even more focus on coordination of care to improve process measures and outcome measures now that CMS is proposing to score them with a 5-star system that could impact referrals in 2015. 
 
12/22/2014
Beginning Jan. 1, home health agencies must report work-related in-patient hospitalizations of one or more employees to the Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA). Such hospitalizations must be reported within 24 hours of the agency learning about them. 
 
12/22/2014
Outsourcing your agency’s information technology (IT) roles can save it tens of thousands of dollars, a significant savings in indirect costs in the wake of years of regulatory cuts to the industry.
 
12/22/2014
Improve your patient satisfaction scores on Home Health Compare by creating action plans for patients that identify their overall goal for home health treatment — such as being able to go to the beauty parlor or to lose weight — and break that goal down into weekly steps that can be measured and tracked. 
 
12/22/2014
CMS has provided doctors with several examples to use within their documentation to justify a patient’s homebound status and need for skilled care.
 
12/22/2014
by: Trish Twombly
Your agency could lose more than $200 per episode for common home health diabetes scenarios such as the one below. 
 

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