Home Health Line
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.

03/26/2012

Use this flow chart to navigate complicated rules for compensation when employees spend time on call after hours and on weekends. The tool was created by HHL and vetted by wage-and-hour expert John Gilliland with the Gilliland Law Firm in Indianapolis.

03/22/2012

Congress should create a home health copay and authorize faster case-mix changes to reduce reimbursement for home health agencies, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) recommends in its annual report.

03/22/2012

Show hospitals you can help them avoid penalties for readmissions and you’ll be ideally positioned to become a trusted referral source and care-transition partner.

03/19/2012

Prepare for longer wait times for reimbursement starting this fall and a possible 2% reduction in your market basket update next year because of new checks on OASIS submissions.

03/19/2012

Take steps now to improve responses to the individual questions that will drag down your patient-satisfaction measures on Home Health Compare.

03/19/2012

For the VNA of South Central Connecticut, improving patient satisfaction scores has been all about keeping up a constant stream of communication with staff about the survey.

03/19/2012

The recent indictment of the Dallas physician who allegedly masterminded some $374 million in Medicare and Medicaid fraud has caused serious aftershocks in the local home health market.

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