Home Health Line
08/02/2010

When a young marketer recommended that The Homemakers Health Services join Facebook, the agency’s community relations director answered with one word: no.

08/02/2010

Hospices mentioned in proposed rule on patient-visitation requirements for hospitals. A proposed rule, published June 28, seeks to protect patient-visitation rights for patients in hospitals and possibly hospice. The proposed

07/26/2010

Worse-than-expected earnings have forced home health giant Amedisys to re-evaluate its corporate structure and plan for growth for 2010, company officials said in a July 13 conference call.

07/26/2010

Proposed changes in the recently released home health PPS rule promise harder times ahead.

07/26/2010

To justify therapy use in home health, CMS has proposed that therapists provide more detailed and more frequent documentation, which experts anticipate could add up to three hours of documentation

07/26/2010

Physicians or non-physician practitioners will be required to have face-to-face encounters with home health and hospice patients for agencies to receive payment, if provisions in CMS’s proposed rule become final.

07/26/2010

You’ll no longer get case-mix points for the most commonly coded form of hypertension, 401.9 (Essential hypertension, unspecified), if CMS has its way.

07/26/2010

Home health agencies who participate in a federal patient-satisfaction survey program may soon have an appeals process by which they can challenge CMS, according to the proposed PPS rule.

07/26/2010

CMS is considering a change to the hospice cap calculation that would allow payments for claims with dates of service spanning two fiscal years to be split between both years,

07/26/2010

Three outcome measures removed from Home Health Compare. CMS will remove discharge to community, improvement of urinary incontinence and emergency care for wounds from its publicly reported outcomes. The federal

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