Home Health Line
06/14/2010
When discharging a patient on a multi-discipline case, Wilson County Home Health’s clinicians notify the other clinicians via e-mail on their BlackBerries.
06/07/2010

In 2009, the Visiting Nurse Association of Central Jersey was looking for a new chief strategy officer to oversee business development for the 1,700 employee agency.

06/07/2010

The final changes to the FY2011 ICD-9-CM code set shows further evidence of a drive toward greater specificity in advance of the transition to ICD-10, coding experts say.

06/07/2010

Timeline for claims may be shorter than expected. The shorter, 12-month period for filing Medicare claims after the date of service (HHL 4/12/10) actually could be as little as 10

06/07/2010

Home health agencies are doing better in challenging adverse administrative law judge rulings these days. The reason is an unexpected source of help – the Medicare appeals council.

06/07/2010

A House of Representatives vote to avoid the 21% reduction in what Medicare pays for physician services, including care-plan oversight and home health certification/recertification, doesn’t mean the issue finally has

06/07/2010
A review of the Cleveland agency’s processes uncovered that its nurses were forgetting to document patient medications in the patients’ files or simply forgot to answer all of the questions
05/24/2010

A recent report prepared by the Department of Justice and HHS outlines the success of recent Medicare fraud enforcement efforts and includes future anti-fraud plans. All of this adds up

05/24/2010

There’s no dispute about the value of cell phones to clinicians. But agencies remain divided about how to cover the costs of the phones.

05/24/2010

The grace period for agencies that couldn’t get referring physicians’ national provider identification numbers (NPIs) is about to end.

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