Home Health Line
12/20/2010

Your agency could be the subject of a wrongful termination lawsuit if you fire an employee for posting disparaging comments on his or her Facebook page.

12/20/2010

Frequent case conferences and creative scheduling strategies are the key to compliance with CMS’ therapy reassessment requirements when multiple therapy disciplines are involved, agencies say.

12/20/2010
Home health agencies are working for quick responses to the Home Health Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HH-CAHPS) survey, but they must strike a delicate balance between educating
12/20/2010

The Medicaid recovery audit contractors (RACs) should be based on a model similar to the federal RAC program and be fully active by April 1, a proposed rule released Nov.

12/20/2010

New therapy documentation requirements will cause more therapists to migrate out of home health, forcing agencies to spend more money to recruit and retain them.

12/13/2010

Congress seems unlikely to give the industry a holiday gift by postponing the face-to-face encounter requirement, even though the requirement continues to confuse – and trouble – many agency managers.

12/13/2010

Some Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) members think copays would be an effective way to preserve the Medicare program, because they would deter patients from accepting unnecessary home health visits.

12/13/2010

CMS should require concrete evidence of fraud and allow agencies to have a hearing before suspending agencies’ Medicare payments, commenters on a proposed rule say.

12/13/2010

A proposal from the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) would begin a two-year rebasing of home health payment rates two years sooner than called for in the health care reform

12/13/2010

Leading home health lobbyists submitted a letter to CMS on Dec. 7 encouraging the federal agency to fund a telehealth demonstration project that would give agencies a financial bonus for

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