Home Health Line
06/11/2012

Focus on therapists’ reassessment content to prevent medical review denials following the recent wave of additional documentation requests (ADRs).

06/11/2012

Require therapists to track their own visits to lighten the workload of managers and schedulers. 

06/11/2012

Don’t schedule additional therapy visits to make up for non-billable ones, CMS warns in a new set of therapy Q&As.

06/11/2012

Two VNAs have become the first home health agencies to be selected as lead providers in a program for non-homebound Medicare patients who are at risk for repeated hospital admissions and emergency room use.

06/11/2012

Hospice Family Care, Inc. in Phoenix, Ariz. will pay the government $3.7 million to resolve false claims allegations.

CMS will make comparative billing reports available to providers of home oxygen services.

06/11/2012

Compare your agency’s weights for the types of visits below to those assigned by other agencies.

06/11/2012

These examples of actual survey citations based on deficiencies in the plan of care were provided by Arlene Maxim, founder of A.D. Maxim & Associates in Troy, Mich.

06/04/2012

Tailor your face-to-face education to the needs of specialists to get better compliance results from those referral sources. 

06/04/2012

Ongoing challenges such as the OASIS-C learning curve and long travel times to patient homes continue to affect clinician productivity, but many agencies have found ways to improve. 

06/04/2012

Agency productivity also has been impacted by the face-to-face encounter requirement, but that impact has been felt in the office rather than the field.

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