Home Health Line
06/23/2014
Griswold International, a major private duty franchisor that operates an “independent contractor system,” is the target of a fraud suit that alleges the Philadelphia company bilked 11 of its franchise holders by claiming its system wasn’t subject to the California Franchise Investment Law or to federal labor and tax regulations.
06/23/2014
Case-mix points from functional items have been on the rise since 2010, making it more important than ever for agencies to ramp up training and documentation to support the services provided. The data includes more than 2.5 million episodes for all of 2013.
06/16/2014
Quality managers with the title of education manager earned on average $84,000, the highest paying salary of those surveyed in DecisionHealth’s 2014 QI/QA salary survey. 
06/16/2014
CMS is holding off on a project to draft data points to be incorporated into electronic health record (EHR) systems as prompts for doctors on face-to-face documentation.
06/16/2014
Three home care associations filed a lawsuit June 6 against the Department of Labor (DOL) for violating federal law when it changed the companion care exemption of the Fair Labor Standards Act.
06/16/2014
Record intake phone calls or conduct scripted calls to monitor your intake department’s conversations with referral sources. Doing so will inform future training and increase the number of calls you receive that turn into sales.
06/16/2014
Many quality managers say that while they are often satisfied with their jobs, the duties they are being assigned seem to continue to grow as salaries remain relatively stagnant.
06/16/2014
The National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) filed a lawsuit June 5 in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C.
06/16/2014
Hospices nationwide received letters last month from a debt collection agency seeking money for analgesics paid for by Medicare Part D in 2011 and 2012.
06/16/2014
New England agencies are finding themselves caught in an OASIS-related recoupment trap that could become a nationwide problem on par with the regulatory burden imposed by the face-to-face requirements.

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