Home Health Line
05/16/2011

Several home health agencies have experienced dramatic improvements in compliance with face-to-face encounter documentation requirements by providing tools to help physicians understand criteria for homebound status.

05/16/2011

You don’t need to schedule an extra visit when one therapy discipline doesn’t see a multi-discipline patient between the 13th and 19th visit, CMS states in new therapy Q&As issued

05/16/2011

Accountable care organizations (ACOs) and care-transition programs promise an integrated effort by physicians, hospitals and post-acute providers to reduce costly hospital readmissions, but many home health agencies have successfully reduced

05/16/2011

An emerging threat can hurt your agency and your patients.

05/16/2011

New Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) rules effective May 24 mean that instead of going to court to determine whether an employee has a disability, employers must now seek to

05/16/2011

Home health agencies that want to participate in the Community-Based Care Transitions Program will have to wait until late August to learn what CMS is looking for in candidates.

05/09/2011

Hospices would get some relief from the burden of the required face-to-face physician encounter plus an estimated 2.3% net increase in Medicare reimbursement under the proposed 2012 hospice rule released

05/09/2011

Many physicians are still struggling to adapt to home health-centric language required in face-to-face encounter documentation, but some proactive home health agencies have begun to develop effective compliance strategies.

05/09/2011

Proposed changes to CMS’ Medicare enrollment form could create a greater paperwork burden for home health agencies when staff changes take place.

05/09/2011
A proposed change to Medicaid home- and community- based waiver services could further reduce the business of Medicaid-certified agencies already reeling from rate and service cuts.

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