Home Health Line
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

08/29/2011

CMS will allow agencies to continue using the old version of enrollment form 855A through October, the federal Medicare agency announced Aug. 23. CMS posted a new version of the

08/29/2011

The tables below list the defining features of both bundled-payment models that will include home health participation for your quick reference. Both tables are based on information from the CMS Innovation Center.

08/29/2011

CMS is asking home health agencies and other Medicare providers to apply for a new demonstration that would allow them to receive joint payment for services and share bonus payments

08/29/2011
08/29/2011

For episodes that begin before and end after the Oct. 1, 2013 transition date to ICD-10, home health agencies must use ICD-10 codes when submitting final claims, CMS states in

08/29/2011

CMS has set the stage for a major expansion of competitively set HME rates despite conflicting views of how Medicare beneficiaries and suppliers have fared under the initial round of

08/22/2011

Medicare beneficiaries may find home health clinicians spending less time on home visits or that clinicians aren’t visiting them at all because their preferred agency has shrunk its service area

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