Home Health Line
10/07/2013
Home care employees who don’t get health insurance through their employer or certain other insurers such as Medicare or Medicaid will be able to proceed with shopping for it through a state health insurance exchange.
 
 
09/30/2013
The Labor Department’s final companionship services exemption rule, which places an estimated 1.9 million home support workers under federal minimum wage and overtime requirements, will sorely test private duty agencies but won’t obliterate them, according to attorneys who have plowed their way through the 358-page rule.
09/30/2013
 Now more than ever, agencies need to analyze doctors’ narratives on face-to-face forms to avoid claim denials due to lack of enough detail to justify the patient’s homebound status.
09/30/2013
In the final rule that grants companion service workers wage and overtime benefits under the Federal Labor Standards Act, the Labor Department provides examples of ways in which an agency could support the provision of companionship services to clients without serving as the caregiver’s employer.
09/30/2013
Make sure your agency has management and follow-up education plans in place to take full advantage of your OASIS scrubber software.
 
09/30/2013
Seventy-five members of Congress have signed a letter urging CMS to modify the face-to-face requirement for home health care, asking that the requirement be met through the completion and collection of the separate 485 (plan of care) form.
 
09/30/2013
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 around these items and to sure up documentation to support the services provided.
09/23/2013
Federal minimum wage and overtime protections will be extended to almost all home health care workers beginning January 2015, the U.S. Labor Department announced on Sept. 17. 
09/23/2013
Home health care agencies must adopt different forms by Dec. 9 to notify Medicare beneficiaries about services they seek that Medicare will not cover or to inform them about services in their plan of care that will be reduced or discontinued.
09/23/2013
Nearly one quarter of agencies that responded to a recent HHL survey said they plan to change existing staff responsibilities to minimize productivity losses in ICD-10.

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