Home Health Line
08/18/2014
Agencies may have to hire more therapists to comply with the therapy reassessment requirements in CMS’ 2015 proposed home health rule.
 
08/18/2014
Join forces with a private duty agency, a skilled nursing facility and a hospice to educate the faith-based community about your services and watch your number of referrals grow.
 
 
08/18/2014
Recent revisions to The Joint Commission’s National Patient Safety Goal (NPSG) on home oxygen safety mean your agency needs to revisit its policies and protocols or risk possible citations.
 
 
08/18/2014
More than one third of the 262 respondents to a therapy reassessment question in HHL’s 2015 proposed rule survey plan to perform more reassessments per episode in response to the proposed therapy reassessment change.
 
08/11/2014
Use this form to capture face-to-face encounter information from physicians.
08/11/2014
Submit your notice of election (NOE) within five calendar days after the effective date of election or you won’t receive payment for those first days of care.
08/11/2014
Home health agencies remain divided on how to change the way they capture face-to-face documentation — or whether they should change anything at all.
08/11/2014
With fewer than five months to go until the postponed obligation of home care employers to provide health coverage for their workers under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) kicks in, the ACA’s impact on the industry remains clouded.
08/11/2014
More than one-third of home support agencies were undecided about how they’ll comply with the Affordable Care Act (ACA), as of February 2014.
08/11/2014
Hospices, take note: CMS is due to publish its 2015 Hospice Facility Cost Report form (CMS-1984-14) by the end of the summer, but that won’t leave you much time to get ready to start reporting costs according to the new form in your next fiscal year.

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