Home Health Line
06/07/2010

Timeline for claims may be shorter than expected. The shorter, 12-month period for filing Medicare claims after the date of service (HHL 4/12/10) actually could be as little as 10

06/07/2010

Home health agencies are doing better in challenging adverse administrative law judge rulings these days. The reason is an unexpected source of help – the Medicare appeals council.

06/07/2010

A House of Representatives vote to avoid the 21% reduction in what Medicare pays for physician services, including care-plan oversight and home health certification/recertification, doesn’t mean the issue finally has

06/07/2010
A review of the Cleveland agency’s processes uncovered that its nurses were forgetting to document patient medications in the patients’ files or simply forgot to answer all of the questions
05/24/2010

A recent report prepared by the Department of Justice and HHS outlines the success of recent Medicare fraud enforcement efforts and includes future anti-fraud plans. All of this adds up

05/24/2010

There’s no dispute about the value of cell phones to clinicians. But agencies remain divided about how to cover the costs of the phones.

05/24/2010

The grace period for agencies that couldn’t get referring physicians’ national provider identification numbers (NPIs) is about to end.

05/24/2010

In a federal court suit, five of Gentiva Health Services’ former nurses are accusing the company of owing them years of unpaid overtime.

05/24/2010
The unprecedented attention the Senate Finance Committee has given to home health therapy patterns has industry veterans troubled about what this could mean for all agencies.
05/17/2010

The plates of home health agencies are heaped high with ADRs that are being dished out by Medicare contractors.

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