Home Health Line
01/16/2012

Make sure your written therapy goals include an explanation of how the goals are important to the patient and how patient progress will be measured.

01/16/2012

New demonstrations and models for smoother care transitions have been frequent in recent years, but home health often has received the short end of the straw in mostly physician- and hospital-dominated programs.

01/16/2012

The Joint Commission has adopted new home health standards that would require accredited agencies to bring staff vaccination rates up to 90% and HHS is seeking comments on a report that could lead to a similar requirement throughout the health care sector.

01/16/2012

If your agency is getting more job applications from nurses than you anticipated, watch out. Their RN degrees are no guarantee they have the experience home health nursing requires.

01/16/2012

Check with your Medicare Administrative Contractor (MAC) if you’re still waiting for a decision on your Home Health Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HH-CAHPS) reconsideration request.

01/16/2012

Take a close look at the particulars of your contract if your agency uses outside therapists who are not subject to the tax withholding that applies to payroll staff.

01/16/2012
01/09/2012

Many agencies have seen referrals slump in 2011 as a result of physician frustration over the face-to-face encounter requirement. But take heart: There’s some reason to believe that referrals will bounce back in 2012.

01/09/2012

You have until Feb. 27 to let the Labor Department know what you think of its proposal to require agencies to pay their home-support employees at least the federal minimum wage, as well as overtime for work that exceeds 40 hours a week.

01/09/2012

Miami-area agencies are seeing unusually large numbers of additional documentation requests (ADRs) from their intermediary, Palmetto GBA.

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