Home Health Line
08/23/2010

The average per-hour cost for private pay home health aides has dropped 14.8% percent since 2008, according to a new national survey.

08/23/2010

CMS is developing a test of “care teams” to treat chronically ill Medicare beneficiaries at home.

08/23/2010

World Health Organization declares H1N1 pandemic over. The H1N1 virus “has largely run its course,” WHO Director-General Dr. Margaret Chan said Aug. 10. But in the “post-pandemic period,” the virus

08/23/2010

For one Pennsylvania VNA, the fact that its website comes up first in a Google.com search for home health agencies in Hanover, Pa., might be what earned it a referral

08/16/2010

Are you apprehensive about the few days CMS would allow for home health patients to have face-to-face encounters with community- based physicians or affiliated non-physician practitioners?

08/16/2010

With few words from CMS on the topic, agencies and software vendors are taking PECOS-related matters into their own hands.

08/16/2010

The report that CMS used as its basis for proposing the drastic 4.75% cut in average home health reimbursement rates is flawed, industry experts say.

08/16/2010

Try tying a component of compliance, such as turning in documentation on time, to your staff’s merit raises and you could increase by 40% the number of clinicians who comply.

08/16/2010

Government efforts to scrub Miami’s reputation as the nation’s Medicare fraud capital have advanced another step with the indictment of a Miami physician, six nurses, two patient recruiters and a

08/16/2010

The Medicare trust fund – which pays hospital claims and about 50% of Medicare’s home health reimbursement – won’t run out of money until 2029. That’s 12 years later than previously projected.

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