Home Health Line
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.
09/23/2013
Rather than reimbursing clinicians for miles driven, consider leasing cars, but avoiding the hassles that come with it, by hiring a company to manage your fleet.
09/23/2013
The owner of an Arlington, Texas-based home health agency, who claimed more than $40 million in medically unnecessary home health services, has been sentenced to more than 10 years in prison and ordered to pay nearly $25.5 million in restitution.
09/23/2013
CMS has indefinitely delayed the implementation of a face-to-face requirement for certain durable medical equipment (DME) supplies.
 

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