Home Health Line
01/27/2014
Educate referral sources about the increased level of specificity they’ll need to provide to minimize productivity loss and prevent denials in the future.
 
 
01/27/2014
Agencies can get the level of specificity they need by revising their intake processes.
 
 
01/27/2014
As more nursing graduates with little home health experience enter the field eager to work, make sure your agency has a detailed, well-structured nursing orientation plan in place, as it can pay dividends in employee satisfaction, retention and, eventually, productivity and outcomes.
 
 
01/27/2014
Home health sales reps need to have a more diverse skill set today than they did five years ago because hospitals are under pressure to reduce readmissions and are increasingly using this criterion to refer patients for post-discharge care. But it’s hard to find sales reps who can explain to hospital clinicians how your agency will meet their patients’ health care needs and describe to executives the extent to which this will improve the hospital’s bottom line. Be prepared to provide training to new recruits so they can engage convincingly with both audiences.
 
 
01/27/2014
Gradually reduce the percentage your agency pays toward employees’ health insurance premiums to help your agency cut costs without negativelyaffecting retention.
01/27/2014
On average, home health agencies contribute 76.5% of employee health insurance premiums, according to data from the Hospital & Healthcare Compensation Service in Oakland, N.J., which publishes the 2013-2014 HOMECARE Salary & Benefits Report annually in cooperation with the National Association for Home Care & Hospice.
01/27/2014
Use this sample intake form from in A.D. Maxim Consulting in Troy, Mich., to help gather the proper information your agency will need from physicians under ICD-10.
 
01/20/2014
Agencies that have Medicare reimbursement tied up in appeals will have to wait two-and-a-half years or more before an administrative law judge (ALJ) will address them, the HHS Office of Medicare Hearings and Appeals (OMHA) is warning providers.
01/20/2014
It could take your clinicians less time to complete patient assessment forms if CMS adopts the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission’s (MedPAC) recommendations for a unified assessment tool and payment system for post-acute care (PAC) providers.
 
01/20/2014
 Agencies may have been incurring delays in Medicare enrollment and notification of appeal decisions hearings because of Medicare Administrative Contractors’ (MAC) failure to meet CMS-imposed administrative deadlines, which the HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) criticizes in a recent study of MAC performance.
 

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