Home Health Line
07/19/2010

<p> Home health agency participation in &ldquo;care teams&rdquo; that treat Medicare beneficiaries who are chronically ill but not home-bound may be tested by CMS sooner than expected.</p>

07/19/2010

Would CMS consider it a change of ownership under the 36-month rule if an owner transfers all of his agency’s stock to the same person but in increments equal to

07/19/2010

The recent heat wave that rolled through the East Coast forced agencies to get creative in their methods for protecting at-risk patients.

07/19/2010

A marketer without much home health experience might think it’s a good idea to take a nursing home administrator to a $300 dinner.

07/19/2010

Hospices nationwide are expanding and redeveloping their bereavement camps as a way to give back to the community and strengthen their reputations as healthcare providers.

07/19/2010

Effective compliance training “is not one-size-fits-all,” says home health attorney Robert Markette of Gilliland & Markette in Indianapolis.

07/19/2010

One quarter of agencies responding to a recent HHL survey say they have done nothing to prepare for the transition to ICD-10, despite the threat of claims rejections if they’re

07/12/2010

Suspicion that publicly held home health companies have been gaming the system to maximize their payments has aroused the interest of a federal investigative agency not usually involved in Medicare

07/12/2010

Many agencies make the mistake of waiting to audit their claims until the end of the episode. But that approach could put them at risk for delayed billing and payments.

07/12/2010

The savings experienced by home and community-based care won’t be enough to keep state Medicaid programs from floundering in the sea of unfunded costs in the not-too-distant future.

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