Home Health Line
05/07/2012

Make sure your contracts with therapy staffing companies include provisions on timely reassessments and compliant documentation.

05/07/2012

Home health agencies, hospices and associations worry that a recent CMS proposed rule, if finalized, would result in massive overpayment demands and could eliminate the option of using the direct data entry system to remedy routine payment errors.

05/07/2012

The federal government will make more money available for states to fund home- and community-based services (HCBS), CMS announced in two separate regulations published May 1.

05/07/2012

So what to do if you’re already stuck in a contract that isn’t working and want to look elsewhere?

05/07/2012

Compare your agency’s visit numbers per HHRG score to those among agencies nationwide. 

04/26/2012

The first batch of publicly reported Home Health Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HH-CAHPS) data gives agencies a solid “B” on patient satisfaction. 

04/26/2012

Use the data below to benchmark your agency’s first publicly reported patient satisfaction outcomes against those achieved by the top-performing 20% of agencies nationwide.

04/26/2012

It could be very costly for agencies to provide services before the 30 day grace-period CMS allows for a late face-to-face encounter. 

04/26/2012

CMS has a new idea for reforming the hospital wage index, but worries the change could result in inaccurate home health rates.

 

04/26/2012

Data collection for the mandatory hospice quality reporting program doesn’t start until Oct. 1, but if you start preparing now, you’ll be able to compile data more easily this fall.

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