Home Health Line
09/20/2010

Industry comments related to CMS’s proposed therapy requirements recommend that CMS:Require re-assessments “at least every 30 days” rather than at the 13th and 19th visit. That would give agencies greater

09/20/2010

Government witnesses at a House hearing Sept. 15 provided reasons why the competitive bidding process should run its course.

09/20/2010

Health care reform has triggered a growth in home health agency and hospital partnerships to reduce hospitalizations. But for some agencies, that concept dates back many years and has resulted

09/20/2010

Agencies that bill to Cahaba GBA beware: The intermediary denied the majority of claims for patients on service longer than 120 days with primary diagnoses of unspecified hypertension or COPD.

09/14/2010

This event has ended.

09/06/2010

BlackBerries and other handheld devices offer home health nurses a speedy way to keep physicians and agencies up to date on changes in patients’ conditions. But under federal wage-and-hour law,

09/06/2010

While the health care reform law carves $117 billion out of Medicare payments to Medicare Advantage plans, home health agencies still face years of coping with below-fee-for-service plan payments, visit

09/06/2010

New York, the first state to mandate that health care providers billing Medicaid have “effective compliance programs,” could be a bellwether for what’s to come across the country.

09/06/2010

Referral sources in the Allentown, Pa., area know Susan Stump as “Sacred Heart Susan.” Stump, a marketer at Sacred Heart Home Care Services, says frequent face-to-face visits and other efforts

09/06/2010

Better brace for another round of confusion over how beneficiaries will get oxygen, diabetic supplies and other medical products under CMS’s latest effort to establish rates through competitive bidding.

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