Home Health Line
08/20/2012

Agencies are looking to supplies and salaries to help cut costs as they cope with yet another round of Medicare rate cuts.

08/20/2012

Make sure you disclose any management or ownership relationships with other companies on cost reports to prevent penalties under the False Claims Act.

08/20/2012

Train your marketers to become experts on your specialty program and increase your monthly referrals for those specialties.

08/20/2012

Make sure staff take responsibility for being on time for visits to lower your liability risk when patients suffer harm while your employee was supposed to be in the home.

08/20/2012

Kaiser Health News has created a chart that shows readmission penalties for fiscal 2013 by hospital.

CMS has posted two user guides for hospice quality reporting.

08/13/2012

CMS will investigate additional restrictions on outliers and explore a freeze on home health enrollment, the federal Medicare agency says in its response to an Aug. 2 report from the HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG).

08/13/2012

Get contractors to take accountability for your agency’s compliance with therapy requirements to prevent non-billable visits due to missed reassessments.

08/13/2012

Whatever side of the question your agency comes down on, make sure you have the right solution to minimize the number of missed reassessments before CMS’ proposals become finalized.

08/13/2012

In the proposed 2013 PPS rule, CMS proposed to only permit fracture diagnosis codes to be placed in the diagnosis payment slot (M1024), eliminating everything else, including resolved conditions.

08/13/2012

The data below show what percentage of patients agencies treat for conditions that have been resolved
through surgery.

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