Home Health Line
12/13/2010

Agencies will ring in the new year with a new requirement to submit claims within 12 months to get paid.

12/13/2010

National debt commission supports more immediate home health rebasing. The National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform has recommended an accelerated plan to phase in home health payment cuts first

12/13/2010

New quality data reveal that hospices have room for improving the education they provide families about the patients’ medicines, treatments and symptoms.

12/06/2010

Can a hospitalist sign the plan of care when he or she certifies home health and documents the face-to-face visit?

12/06/2010

An exclusive first look at data from the Home Health Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HH-CAHPS) voluntary “dry run” shows agency scores lagged behind on “specific-care issues.”

12/06/2010

How well-supplied with durable medical equipment, prosthetics, orthotics and supplies (DMEPOS) will beneficiaries be when successful bidders become the sources for most of those supplies in nine initial markets?

12/06/2010

New Medicaid programs authorized by the health care reform law could put home health agencies in charge of coordinating patients’ care – and pay them for it.

12/06/2010

A hospice could be at risk for CMS survey deficiencies if staff at a skilled nursing facility where a hospice patient lives do not perform their own assessments.

12/06/2010

Your agency now has a new self-disclosure tool to avoid Medicare recoupments when your agency forgets to renew a contract with a referring physician with whom your agency has a

12/06/2010

Physicians will continue to dodge, until Jan. 1, the 23% physician cut called for under the existing practitioner payment formula (HHL 7/5/10). That’s thanks to legislation that unanimously passed the

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