Home Health Line
01/06/2014
Home health agencies that wish to participate in an ACO should investigate the potential financial risks of joining one or any fees they may have to pay after becoming an ACO’s preferred provider.
 
01/06/2014
Hospices will have to invest more money and anticipate decreased productivity due to a host of new and changing regulations in 2014.
 
01/06/2014
Payment cuts provided in the PPS final rule will lead to a decrease in the number of Medicare home health agencies over the next few years, financial experts say.
 
01/06/2014
Agencies’ use of iPads or other tablets as point of care (POC) devices will continue to increase in 2014, and software vendors will become more capable of handling the technology, experts predict.
01/06/2014
 
Many agencies plan to spend more money on OASIS training in 2014 than they spent in 2013. About 85% of the 172 respondents to HHL’s 2014 trends survey plan to spend more on ICD-10 preparation in 2014 than they had in 2013.
 
12/23/2013
The implementation of ICD-10 will have the greatest impact on agency operations and financials in 2014 among all the requirements and regulatory changes that will impact the industry in 2014.
12/23/2013
Make sure your nurses can justify their patients’ homebound status at every visit throughout the entire episode to prevent or defend against the scrutiny of recovery audit contractors (RACs) that have descended on the home health industry.
 
 
12/23/2013
Home care agency stakeholders gathered on Capitol Hill Nov. 20 to seek relief from the negative impacts that the new overtime requirements will have on home care workers, clients and their families. They testified before the House Education & the Workforce Committee’s Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
 
 
12/23/2013
Educate your home health marketers about a new payment to physicians for overseeing chronically ill Medicare beneficiaries.
12/23/2013
Care plan oversight for any agency patient. This is the long-established reimbursement to physicians for overseeing patients who are admitted for standard home health episodes. Many practitioners prefer to forego this payment because it requires them to document the minimum 30 minutes of oversight tasks CMS requires.http://homehealthline.decisionhealth.com/Articles/Detail.aspx?id=516048

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