Home Health Line
09/16/2011

CMS has published the risk-adjustment formula it used to calculate scores for the first batch of publicly reported OASIS-C-based outcomes data.

09/16/2011

CMS issued a new statement of work for its Recovery Audit Contractors (RACs) Sept. 12 that could put home health on the auditors’ radar. The statement of work emphasizes that

09/05/2011

Stepped-up OIG scrutiny and audits of hospice services mean hospices must be sure documentation justifies the medical necessity of services.

09/05/2011

Looming Medicare cuts are forcing many agencies to cut costs, leading to dissatisfied staff and making this the perfect time to work on ways to lower turnover and improve patient

09/05/2011

Late therapy reassessment visits trigger two separate counts – one for your biller and one for your scheduler, a CMS spokesperson tells HHL.

09/05/2011

Sixty-nine Houston-area agencies are on notice from CMS for questionable Medicare referrals in a case that drives home the effects of a new Medicare fraud-fighting tool and the importance of

09/05/2011

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to consider whether California providers have the right to challenge Medicaid rate cuts on grounds that such state actions would harm the quality and

09/05/2011
Agencies facing limited marketing budgets or consumed with the latest innovative approach to induce referrals might be forgetting a low-cost, grassroots strategy that creates referral sources out of your office’s
09/05/2011
The data below show that good patient outcomes correspond with high scores on the Home Health Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HH-CAHPS) survey questions CMS will report publicly
08/29/2011

Improvements in key patient outcome categories and clinician productivity are within reach if you replicate the decision by two agencies – one large, one small – to transition to a field-based case

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