Home Health Line
02/27/2012

If you want to have a truly effective engagement program, it needs to be the number one priority for everyone at the agency, says Dr. Mindy L. Gewirtz, founder of Collaborative Networks International in Boston.

02/27/2012

The implementation of the 5010 claim submission standard continues despite the delay of ICD-10, and providers have been seeing a whole list of issues play out, including claims that seemed to get lost in the system.

02/27/2012

CMS should adopt new screening criteria that would classify all home health agencies as a high fraud risk, the HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) says in a new report on its top management challenges.

02/27/2012

Agencies hoping to participate in CMS’ bundled-payment demonstration with other post-acute providers could find their plans complicated by a new CMS report.

02/27/2012

Educate patients and employees on what’s expected of them in order to prevent theft from becoming an issue for your agency.

02/20/2012

You will get more time to prepare for the industry switch to ICD-10, but it’s not yet clear how much.

02/20/2012

Three of the four Recovery Audit Contractors (RACs) have begun work on home health audits, HHL has learned.

02/20/2012

If your agency is still struggling to upgrade to the new 5010 claims submission standard, you’re not alone: One in four agencies responding to HHL’s software vendor performance survey said they didn’t comply until after the Jan. 1 deadline or have yet to achieve compliance.

02/20/2012

“Dead on arrival” once again is the House Republican mantra in response to President Obama’s latest budget, for fiscal 2013.

02/20/2012

Mandatory data collection for hospice quality reporting doesn’t start until Oct. 1, but make sure your hospice gets ready for the process now to avoid a 2% pay cut in fiscal 2014 for failing to submit data.

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