Home Health Line
08/06/2012

Prepare for future quality reporting requirements and get a better sense of how patient family members perceive your hospice’s care by creating your own survey based on national quality forum (NQF) standards.

08/06/2012

The data below show how agencies currently track compliance with therapy reassessments.

They also show agencies’ attitudes towards the latest CMS proposal on therapy reassessments.

08/06/2012

Hospices will begin to receive their first PEPPER reports in late August, CMS contractor TMF Quality Institute has announced.

08/06/2012

Medicare spending on home health continues to grow slightly, but growth has begun to level off, data from the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission’s (MedPAC) 2012 Data Book show.

07/30/2012

After some two years of underpayments to agencies and several unsuccessful attempts, a working outlier fix finally seems to be in place.

07/30/2012

Hospices will see a net 0.9% increase in their payments starting Oct. 1, according to the hospice wage index published July 24. 

07/30/2012

Two of the five publicly reported patient satisfaction scores dropped by one percentage point each in the Home Health Compare update July 19.

07/30/2012

The latest Home Health Compare data show that two of the five publicly reported patient satisfaction measures have dropped compared to the April 19 update.

07/30/2012

New data from OCS HomeCare in Seattle show that the percentage of outlier episodes has decreased significantly since the implementation of CMS’ 10% outlier cap in 2010.

07/30/2012

Agencies in 15 mostly southern states should brace for the first medical record review by a recovery audit contractor (RAC).

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