Home Health Line
10/14/2013
 Devote a section of your agency’s website specifically to physicians’ practices, adding items such as videos of physician testimonials and downloadable face-to-face encounter forms, and your agency could see an immediate boost in referrals.
 
10/14/2013
Hospitals are home health agencies’ overall top referral source, followed by general physicians and skilled nursing facilities, according to the 181 respondents in HHL’s 2013 Medicare Referrals Survey.
10/14/2013
Assign a triage nurse to field calls after hours and your agency will reduce readmissions and improve the morale of its nurses, experts say.
 
10/14/2013
Use this checklist to ensure that your agency is in full compliance with the HIPAA mega rule.
10/07/2013
Home health providers needn’t fear a cutoff in Medicare/Medicaid payments because of the government shutdown which began Oct. 1 when the GOP-controlled House and the Democrat-controlled Senate failed to pass a short-term extension of funding for a broad gamut of federal activities.
 
 
10/07/2013
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission’s (MedPAC) has advocated more stringent rebasing of home health rates than CMS is proposing — one indication that that the industry’s effort to limit the effects of rebasing in the final PPS rule remains an uphill fight.
 
 
10/07/2013
Hospices that provide influenza, pneumococcal and hepatitis B vaccines to Medicare beneficiaries can bill for them but now, have to be enrolled in Medicare Part B to get reimbursed, administrative contractors (MAC) Palmetto GBA and CGS explain. In addition, non-hospice providers can cannot bill for buying or administering the vaccines to hospice patients and hospices cannot bill Medicare for this service using the UB04 hospice claim, adds Palmetto GBA spokesman Adam Myrick.
 
 
10/07/2013
Despite pressure from Medicare to reduce readmissions, nearly one in five patients with a diagnosis of heart failure is hospitalized during the first week of home health care, new acute care hospitalization [ACH] data from OCS HomeCare in Seattle show.
 
 
10/07/2013
Take a few extra steps to make sure patients have a way to get to their physicians’ offices if you want to avoid costly face-to-face denials.
 
 
10/07/2013
Nearly a quarter of patients with a diagnosis of V54 are hospitalized during the first week of home health care. Meanwhile, 28% of patients with a diagnosis of V58  are hospitalized during the first week of home care, according to new data from OCS HomeCare in Seattle. The information represents data for 2012 from over 1,500 provider locations.
 

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