Home Health Line
04/25/2011

CMS requires only one physician signature when the physician certification and face-to-face encounter documentation are on the same document, the federal Medicare agency announced April 13.

04/25/2011

A provision in the health care reform bill is forcing CMS to examine whether the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) is right in regularly finding no lack of home health

04/25/2011

President Barack Obama has signed a bill to repeal the 1099 reporting requirement which would have forced home health agencies to tell the IRS about their purchases of most goods

04/25/2011

Contract employees are likely the biggest reason that a hospice condition of participation related to background checks made its debut on the list of top 10 CMS survey deficiencies in

04/18/2011

The Community Living Assistance Services and Supports (CLASS) Act included in last year’s health care reform legislation as a way to guarantee home care and community care for some 600,000

04/18/2011

Physician orders for home health services or discharge summaries from acute or post-acute care facilities are acceptable for face-to-face visit documentation if they include certain information.

04/18/2011

When pharmaceutical sales representatives apply for jobs at your agency, ask questions to determine how they’ll handle industry differences.

04/18/2011

Is the campaign to halt or revise use of competitive bidding to set Medicare’s home medical equipment rates gaining ground?

04/11/2011

Home health agencies already are feeling the effects of the face-to-face physician encounter requirement just days after CMS announced it would not grant another delay in enforcement.

04/11/2011

Home health agencies will have to work with physicians and hospitals in charge of each accountable care organization (ACO) to determine how – or whether – they will receive a slice of

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