Home Health Line
05/17/2010

The era of appointing home health board members to honor them or because they make large financial contributions may be coming to an end.

05/17/2010
When the VNA of South Central Connecticut started thinking in early February about the upcoming CAHPS survey, the agency looked to its previous patient-satisfaction survey for guidance.
05/17/2010
Lack of documentation for general inpatient care, stamped signatures and incomplete notices of election triggered some of the most common types of claims denials in 2009.
05/17/2010

CMS’s home health webinar on RACs raises more questions. CMS hosted a 90-minute recovery audit contractor (RAC) conference call May 4 for home health and hospice providers, but it left

05/17/2010

The top Democrat and the top Republican on the Senate Finance Committee have sent letters to executives of the four largest for-profit home health agencies asking them to provide detailed

05/17/2010
The percentage of agencies cited for organizational and administrative errors during state surveys has climbed 10 percentage points in only two years. And agencies that get repeat deficiencies in those
05/10/2010

CMS has had a surprise change of heart about the obstacles its 36-month rule has put in the way of buying and selling HHAs and transferring ownership in them.

05/10/2010
Here’s a question to add to your next OASIS-C training session: Does the patient need to have a pain assessment conducted to answer “yes” to M2250e (interventions to monitor and
05/10/2010

CMS will add 13 new OASIS-C process measures to its Home Health Compare website in October. That will be the first new data on the website after a six-month blackout

05/10/2010

Patients who attend adult day care centers that aren’t certified or licensed may be putting their homebound status in jeopardy.

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