Home Health Line
04/09/2012
03/29/2012

Congress didn’t specify what physicians need to do to “document” face-to-face encounters with patients referred for home health. Nevertheless, CMS plans to stick with its controversial F2F reporting requirements, which must be satisfied for agencies to be paid by Medicare.

03/29/2012

Agencies now know the seven components recommended for the implementation of home health pay for performance thanks to a recent HHS report submitted to Congress. 

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.

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