Home Health Line
07/25/2011
Home health agencies may need to become more mindful of the strategies they use to keep mileage costs down in the face of recent gas price fluctuations and ongoing Medicare
07/18/2011

The face-to-face encounter requirement has already proved burdensome for the operations of agencies across the country, but for several agencies in New England, it’s now impacting cash flow as well.

07/18/2011

Stymied by physician refusals to document face-to-face encounters, some agencies are risking criminal charges by writing the narrative explanation of why a patient is homebound and needs home care, which

07/18/2011

The National Association for Home Care & Hospice has presented CMS with a catalogue of agency experiences from 20 states showing the degree to which the face-to-face encounter requirement has limited

07/18/2011

Software shortfalls are making it harder for agencies to comply with a recent CMS clarification that all non-covered visits must be included on their claims.

07/18/2011

Home health copays are on the table for Democrats and Republicans negotiating an increase in the debt ceiling aimed at avoiding a first-ever U.S. default, a discussion outline released by

07/18/2011
Private duty home care aide retention can be as simple as saying, “Thank you.”
07/11/2011

CMS wants to shrink Medicare’s current home health rates by an average of 3.35% next year under the proposed 2012 PPS rule released July 5.

07/11/2011

Agencies will be forced to ramp up training related to therapy services and ICD-9 coding accuracy, especially for patients with hypertension, if proposals in the 2012 PPS rule become final.

07/11/2011

CMS may be adding to the already significant burden of the face-to-face encounter requirement with its changes in the proposed 2012 PPS rule, agencies say.

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