Home Health Line
07/04/2011
Three months into the enforcement of the face-to-face physician encounter requirement, a few agencies have developed strategies for achieving near-perfect compliance. But even for those agencies, an impact on referrals
06/27/2011

Problems arising from new therapy reassessment requirements are on the verge of spreading to your billing department as you enter the first billing cycle since the regulations went into effect

06/27/2011

Expect the stronger focus on quality of care CMS has integrated into its revised state survey protocols to extend to your plan of correction after the survey.

06/27/2011

Don’t expect an exception for agencies that miss the 30-day therapy assessment requirement due to circumstances out of their control, CMS tells HHL in a list of responses to therapy

06/27/2011

A new study by consulting firm Avalere Health provides a glimpse of the impact of a home health copay on Medicare beneficiaries.

06/27/2011

CMS plans to use predictive modeling technology to catch Medicare fraudsters starting July 1. Predictive modeling is the technology used by credit card companies to identify payments outside the norm.

06/27/2011

The majority of listeners who asked questions at the end of CMS’ May 25 home health open-door forum were instructed to submit their queries to CMS via email in order to receive an answer. CMS shared with HHL the responses to several questions submitted by Mary St. Pierre, VP for regulatory affairs with the National Association for Home Care & Hospice.

06/27/2011

Arlynn Hansell, program manager of clinical excellence at American-Mercy Home Care in Cincinnati, developed this decision tree with Vickie Elkins from the reimbursement team at her agency’s parent company

06/27/2011
A mixture of new Medicare requirements and the ongoing OASIS-C learning curve has led to a dramatic loss in productivity among registered nurses.
06/20/2011

Every accountable care organization (ACO) should be required to include at least one home health agency to win Medicare approval, the National Association for Home Care & Hospice states in comments

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