Home Health Line
09/16/2013
It takes about two weeks longer to collect payments from commercial payers than it does to collect from Medicare.
09/02/2013
Agencies that view transitional care of patients after hospital discharge as a potential source of new revenues should feel encouraged by an advisory opinion from the HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) that indicates hospital or physician groups’ could legally pay for such services if they represent “fair market value” and meet other conditions.
 
09/02/2013
The Visiting Nurse Association of Greater Philadelphia reduced its annual expenses by more than $2 million over three years and, by the end of June, it had cut its yearly expenses by 8% from the same period the year before.
 
09/02/2013
A growing number of home health agencies are moving to outsource a portion or all of their coding to meet some of the challenges posed by the transition to ICD-10.
 
09/02/2013
Create a sliding mileage reimbursement scale that changes with the ebb and flow of oil prices, and you could not only save money but also have happier employees.
 
09/02/2013
Change Request 8416, which CMS issued on Aug. 16, lists the hospice aggregate cap amount — $26,157.50 — for the cap year ending Oct. 31.
09/02/2013
Nearly 25% of agencies plan to change existing staff responsibilities to minimize productivity losses related
to the transition to ICD-10, according to 136 respondents in HHL’s 2013 Productivity Survey. (See related story.)
 
08/26/2013
Don’t ignore employee claims that supervisors or employees have made inappropriate sexual overtures against them. A recent case involving Help at Home shows that failure to act could cost you hundreds of thousands of dollars.
08/26/2013
Many home health agencies are turning to mileage tracking devices as a way to save thousands of dollars a year. And they find it’s an effective way to ensure that employees’ mileage is recorded accurately.
 
08/26/2013
Use the extra time you’ve gained from the one-year delay in the employer mandate to determine how many of your employees qualify for Medicaid.
 

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