Home Health Line
03/21/2011

Home health, physician and hospital associations and beneficiary groups have joined with members of Congress in an effort to convince CMS to delay the face-to-face physician encounter requirement until at

03/21/2011

New York state agencies soon could be forced to reduce or drop their Medicaid services as a result of a recent budget proposal by Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

03/21/2011

Agencies that receive full-episode payments for anemia patients must clearly document that code choice to avoid possible overpayments for those profitable cases.

03/21/2011

HHS must pay home health agencies and hospices financial incentives for using electronic health records if that technology is going to improve care transitions.

03/21/2011
by: Megan Gustafson

Don’t stop marketing to assisted living facilities (ALFs), especially in today’s lackluster economy, because they’re proving to still be a valuable source of referrals and revenue, say private duty veterans.

03/14/2011

Hospices won’t have to delay new admissions for patients who are actively dying but haven’t had required face-to-face physician encounters.

03/14/2011

As agencies nationwide prepare for the April 1 Medicare face-to-face physician encounter deadline, Ohio agencies already are feeling the blow of a similar Medicaid requirement that took effect Feb. 1.

03/14/2011

Quality improvement organizations (QIOs) will continue to work with all health care providers to improve care transitions and reduce hospital re-admissions.

03/14/2011

How much harm can a disgruntled employee do to a home health agency?

03/14/2011

Applications for the next HH-CAHPS exemption will be available April 1. Agencies need to submit new forms every year to continue to qualify for exemptions from the Home Health Consumer

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