Home Health Line
10/11/2010

CMS announced the following payment allowances for the influenza vaccine based on CPT code with dates of service between Sept. 1, 2010, and Aug. 31, 2011:CPT 90655 – $12.398CPT 90656 – $12.375CPT

10/11/2010

Connecticut-based New Milford VNA is among the list of 2010 HomeCare Elite agencies that have made the most significant improvement in the Home Health Compare pain outcome.

10/11/2010

The HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) has its investigative eye on a variety of sensitive home health and hospice issues, from enrollment process controls to OASIS accuracy, according to

10/11/2010

Confusion about how to bill correctly for physician services provided to hospice patients led to $566,000 in billing mistakes in 2009, the HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) estimated in

10/11/2010

Freshen up your sales pitch for loyal referral sources by using a timely event to highlight one of your agency’s services. That approach helped one agency double its revenue in

10/04/2010

Agencies could face Medicare payment suspensions for six months or longer if a disgruntled employee calls an HHS fraud hotline with a complaint about fraudulent practices.

10/04/2010

National health care associations are encouraging providers to adopt mandatory flu shot programs for all health care workers, but home health agencies are reluctant to follow that trend.

10/04/2010

Several home health agencies and associations have been lobbying to be included in the myriad of electronic health information exchanges (HIEs) that are popping up across the nation.

10/04/2010

Hospices could receive lower overpayment demands if they are allowed to individually ask that cap recalculations spread payments over the years the patient was on service – an idea supported by

10/04/2010

Executives of companies convicted of fraud will no longer be allowed to move to another agency and continue submitting fraudulent claims if a House-passed bill successfully makes its way through

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