Home Health Line
01/21/2013
The 2013 mergers and acquisition forecast for Medicare home health agencies is likely to follow a similar pattern as in 2011 and 2012. But expect one major difference: Growth in transactions involving hospitals and senior living facilities in response to the emergence of accountable care organizations (ACOs) and bundled payments.
 
01/21/2013
The data below show the total number of home health transactions in 2005 through 2011, the most recent year for which data were available.
 
01/21/2013
Patients’ ability to drive while under your care complicates the question of eligibility, but doesn’t automatically disqualify a patient from being considered homebound, experts say. Evaluate factors such as the frequency of drives and the effort it takes to get into the car to determine whether homebound status is still present.
 
01/21/2013
Look for creative ways to make staffing and supplies for hospice care in facilities more cost-efficient as reimbursement rates for hospice enter a downward trend.
 
01/14/2013
A proposed IRS rule would put some limits to employers’ obligations to provide affordable health insurance coverage to employees under the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
01/14/2013
A little-noticed provision of the congressional agreement reached earlier this month opens the door to auditors seeking to collect overpayments which are more than three years old.
 
01/14/2013
It wasn’t all M1024: A Grouper change effective for assessments completed on or after Jan. 1 means you’ll get more money for certain past episodes if you decide to adjust those claims.
 
01/14/2013
Home health tech experts see nothing but growth in 2013, and think the sooner you get in on it, the better off your agency will be.
 
01/14/2013
The data below show that marketing and staff training are the top budget priorities for agencies in 2013.
 
01/14/2013
Your clinicians need to understand what counts as a multi-discipline therapy case as opposed to a single-discipline therapy case when different disciplines start and stop throughout the episode. Failure to comply with this requirement could result in a loss of hundreds of dollars per episode.
 

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