Home Health Line
08/09/2010

Legislation to reverse a 2007 Supreme Court decision that deemed companion caregivers ineligible for overtime pay by agencies and other third-party payers has been introduced in the House and Senate.

08/09/2010

New HHQI package focuses on fall prevention. The Home Health Quality Improvement Campaign’s newest best practice package includes guidelines from the newly released “American Geriatric Society, the British Geriatric Society

08/09/2010

As competition heats up and access to referral sources becomes more limited, agencies are honing in on sales skills to make the most of their time with referral sources.

08/02/2010

The pending changes in the PPS rule would not allow a referring physician from a hospital or skilled care facility to fulfill the new face-to-face visit requirement.

08/02/2010

Prepare to update your business-associate agreements to require partnering companies to comply with the HIPAA security rule, report breaches of patient information and have their own agreements with subcontractors.

08/02/2010

Patients with HIV, AIDS or certain psychiatric conditions may be excluded from CAHPS participation for agencies in certain states.

08/02/2010

This table shows the average number of clinical domain points for each of the related OASIS-C case-mix questions. For many of the items, the average number of clinical points decreased

08/02/2010

In 2008, Visiting Nurse Association of St. Luke’s uncovered it had let $230,000 in Medicare revenue fly out of the door over a six-month period, all because of LUPAs.

08/02/2010

CMS clarifies questions about payer changes, heart failure follow-up and patient noncompliance relating to functional items in the July update to its OASIS-C Q&As.

08/02/2010

Home health agencies could be headed for another round of trying to help patients panicked by the threat of losing local providers of oxygen, diabetic supplies and other medical products.

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