Home Health Line
03/29/2012

Analyze what referral sources’ needs your local competitors aren’t meeting to grow referrals.

03/29/2012

Help your clinicians identify infections of the multi-drug resistant bacteria Clostridium difficile (C. difficile), which can seriously endanger the lives of home health patients exposed to them.

03/29/2012

If you think the only use of telephony in home care today is to monitor when aides show up at a client’s residence for work and when they leave, better think again.

03/29/2012

The False Claims Act is the government’s most successful fraud enforcement tool, especially since whistleblowers – individuals who bring suspected fraud to the government’s attention – are able to receive up to 30% of the money recovered from the violator. 

03/29/2012

CMS will provide free webinar trainings on hospice quality reporting in April

03/26/2012

Capital Home Health Care in Leesburg, Va., has seen hospital referrals increase by 25% within the past four months, says Jessica Smith, the agency’s VP of marketing and sales. The agency first implemented its targeted marketing campaign eight months ago.

03/26/2012

Providers have three more months until enforcement of the new 5010 claim submission standard begins, CMS announced March 15.

03/26/2012

Make sure your agency is looking closely at actual patient needs for home health services to prevent unnecessary low-utilization payment adjustments (LUPAs) in cases where a patient may require more than four visits.

03/26/2012

Make sure your on-call pay meets wage-and-hour requirements: The government is cracking down on home health agencies’ mistakes.

03/26/2012

Wage-and-hour rules aren’t the only thing tripping up agencies when it comes to on-call policies. If your agency doesn’t comply with its own policy, it could result in a deficiency during your next CMS state survey.

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