Home Health Line
07/12/2010

Hospitals are increasingly requiring home health agencies to jump through hoops, such as filling out applications, to get their names on the list of available agencies given to patients when

07/12/2010

The latest word from CMS suggests there’s no guarantee that agencies won’t be asked to repay the money later if the referring physician wasn’t registered in the provider enrollment, chain

07/12/2010

President Barack Obama appoints new CMS administrator. Rather than waiting for Congress to return from recess to approve his nomination, President Barack Obama used a procedural move known as a

07/05/2010

Some good news for home health agencies: CMS won’t automatically reject your claims if referring physicians aren’t enrolled in the provider enrollment, chain and ownership system (PECOS).

07/05/2010

It shouldn’t be the agency’s responsibility to determine whether a patient had a face-to-face physician visit in the six months prior to home health.

07/05/2010

Home health agencies can expect more details about the ambiguous accountable care organizations (ACOs) in a proposed rule this fall.

07/05/2010

Are you looking for that competitive edge that also will help you improve patient satisfaction and outcome scores?

07/05/2010

Yet another short-term reprieve, this one for five months through Nov. 30, is the latest action by Congress to dodge the threatened 21% physician pay cuts.

07/05/2010

Providers have successfully won 64.4% of appeal of recovery audit contractor overpayments, according to new data from CMS’s three-year RAC demonstration.

07/05/2010

Seven indicted in alleged $5 million fraud scheme in Houston. The scheme involved paying kickbacks for recruiting Medicare beneficiaries for home health services at Family Healthcare Services in Houston, according

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