Home Health Line
11/04/2013
Home care agencies may be able to retain and recruit clients by educating them and their families on the burdensome paperwork and potential costs involved in hiring workers directly, rather than through agencies, to try to avoid paying overtime.
 
 
11/04/2013
Agencies can now use a set of tools to assess and help treat depression in older homebound patients, which can reduce hospital readmissions.
 
11/04/2013
Agencies with 50 or fewer employees are still unsure about whether to participate in the SHOP program, according to a new HHL survey. More than 70% of the 37 respondents to a question about SHOP aren’t sure if they will use it. About one quarter of respondents won’t; 5% will.
 
10/28/2013
Home health agencies must soon start providing more specific details about patients’ health status, mobility and lack of independence to justify homebound status.
10/28/2013
Home health agencies and hospices that aren’t providing health insurance should poll their full-time employees to learn whether they receive it elsewhere.
10/28/2013
When choosing software to maintain or improve your home health agency’s operations, test it to make sure data can be easily stored and accessed, and find out how much it will cost to maintain, make repairs and add components.
 
10/28/2013

Increase revenue streams by as much as $6,000 per month by marketing wake-up and turn-down services to residents in assisted living facilities (ALF).

 
10/28/2013

Palmetto GBA recently announced that it will review home health claims in their entirety even after finding a denial-worthy mistake — and that it will provide agencies with greater clarity about its reasons for issuing denials.

 
10/28/2013
More than 91% of the respondents to HHL’s 2013 Health Insurance survey offer some form of insurance to their agency’s employees. Nearly half of the survey’s 84 respondents offer insurance to some or all of their agency’s part-time employees.
10/21/2013
The federal shutdown, which ended in its third week on Oct. 17, didn’t interrupt Medicare payments to home health agencies. But it was hurting the industry in other ways, most notably by scrubbing — or at least delaying — a final appeal in behalf of agencies for a less punitive rate rebasing and related rate reductions than proposed in the PPS rule for 2014.

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