Home Health Line
04/11/2011

The long-awaited proposed rule on accountable care organizations (ACOs) appears to relax several compliance requirements to enable ACOs to operate, but the rule also creates new compliance obligations for participating

04/11/2011

The upcoming Easter and Passover holiday season can be the perfect time for home care agencies to air radio ads targeted at baby boomers who may be more in tune

04/11/2011

CMS delays enforcement of lab requisition signature requirement indefinitely. The federal Medicare agency announced March 31 that it is concerned physicians and labs don’t understand the requirement. For that reason,

04/11/2011

You could be putting your agency on a CMS auditor’s radar if the percentage of patients with high clinical scores strays too far above the average.

04/04/2011

New data from CMS and recent changes to CMS state survey protocols suggest agencies will have to dramatically change the way home health clinicians communicate with each other to avoid

04/04/2011

The more than 50% increase to 11,500 in the number of home health agencies since 2000 has spawned a surge in unethical patient-recruitment practices and outright patient theft in areas

04/04/2011

Emphasize to referral sources your agency’s late-night and weekend admissions availability, and you could grow your referral count from hospitals and other providers who refer as part of a rotation

04/04/2011

A new proposed rule from the HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) could increase the number of investigations launched against home health agencies and could cost even honest providers thousands

04/04/2011

Home health agencies are familiar with some of the quality measures that accountable care organizations (ACOs) will be judged on, but how they will distribute payments is still uncertain.

04/04/2011

The revised CMS state survey protocols, effective May 1, will change the focus of the survey process to include more staff interviews.

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