Home Health Line
03/14/2011

The lessons learned by the former owner of a smal-lto mid-sized Medicare home health agency can help you make your agency more attractive to potential buyers when its time to

03/07/2011

The industry voiced cautious support for a home health value-based purchasing program, stressing the importance of protecting access to care and small business needs.

03/07/2011

Low-income seniors are part of the fastest-growing portion of the U.S. population, but don’t expect state home and community-based programs for that group to match its growth.

03/07/2011

Best practices related to medication review may be the key to surviving your next CMS state survey with zero deficiencies.

03/07/2011

CMS’ latest clarifications of coverage criteria for maintenance therapy have flown under the radar, which means agencies could miss out on payments for patients who need those services.

03/07/2011
Home health agencies can use option box 2 of the home health advance beneficiary notice (HHABN) to notify patients of an impending termination of services if they haven’t had face-to-face
03/07/2011

Give referring physicians this form to order home health services and document a face-to-face physician encounter, required for payment starting April 1.

02/28/2011

Do home health patients need a second option when they have complaints about the quality of care agencies have provided?

02/28/2011

The government’s expanding campaign to prosecute Medicare fraud in Florida, Texas, Michigan and elsewhere seems to have chilled once-common demands by Miami-area physicians to get paid for their home health

02/28/2011

Agencies billing requests for anticipated payment (RAPs) with a “through” date more than 12 months ago are getting those RAPs returned for not meeting new timely filing requirements. And that’s

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