Home Health Line
06/24/2013
The visit authorization delays and denials home health agencies long have experienced in serving Medicare Advantage (MA) enrollees show no signs of going away. But a new letter from the Home Care Association of Florida (HCAF) to a key senator aims to provide relief for the ever-worsening situation.
 
 
06/24/2013
More than one in ten agencies already have begun using TCM information in their marketing, according to 181 responses to HHL’s 2013 Medicare referrals survey. (See related story) Another 46.8% indicated they plan to add TCM codes to their pitch.
 
 
06/24/2013
Medicare Advantage referrals come with visit authorization hold-ups and other problems, but there are ways to minimize your financial risk for those patients.
 
06/24/2013
Growth of Medicare Advantage enrollment hasn’t been good news for many in the home health industry.
 
06/24/2013
The latest Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) report to Congress provides a hint of what home health payments might look like once they’re bundled with other post-acute and hospital services.
 
 
06/24/2013
Now is the time to start performing your gap analysis to determine what changes you need to make to prepare for ICD-10. The analysis also will uncover how much you need to budget for the big transition.
 
 
06/21/2013
Michelle Martin, recently named policy director for The National Council on Medicaid Home Care, comes to her new role with years of experience with Medicaid.
06/17/2013
New CMS guidance on what the hospital discharge process should look like could help prevent hospitals from steering patients to their own or other favored post-acute providers. The guidance is in the form of instructions to Medicare surveyors, who will use these revised conditions of participation to evaluate hospital discharges.
 
06/17/2013
The rapid increase in accountable care organizations (ACOs) is starting to take its toll in terms of lost referrals for independent home health agencies.
 
06/17/2013
In the HHL survey, 61.6% of the 181 respondents said they aren’t participating in an accountable care organization (ACO), but plan to do so.
 

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