Home Health Line
09/27/2010

CMS is on track to reject home health claims when the certifying physician isn’t registered in the national Provider Enrollment Chain and Ownership System (PECOS) database, starting Jan. 1.

09/27/2010

Home health agencies could become the subject of random Medicare contractor inspection visits starting in 2012.

09/27/2010

Sayre (Okla.) Home Health uses this PPS Estimator Worksheet to calculate the profit or loss for each patient

09/27/2010
by: Barbara Akst

The first 30 seconds of your initial contact with prospective clients can make or break the sale.

09/27/2010

The best are getting better. The 2010 HomeCare Elite top 100 improved their scores over last year’s top 100 in all clinical outcomes except improvement in surgical wounds, show new

09/20/2010

Most home health agencies will be excessively burdened by the face-to-face encounter requirement and will be unready for the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) surveys, according to

09/20/2010

CMS should consider waiving the hospice face-to-face encounter requirement in situations where the patient would suffer if care was delayed.

09/20/2010

Industry comments related to CMS’s proposed therapy requirements recommend that CMS:Require re-assessments “at least every 30 days” rather than at the 13th and 19th visit. That would give agencies greater

09/20/2010

Government witnesses at a House hearing Sept. 15 provided reasons why the competitive bidding process should run its course.

09/20/2010

Health care reform has triggered a growth in home health agency and hospital partnerships to reduce hospitalizations. But for some agencies, that concept dates back many years and has resulted

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