Home Health Line
05/10/2010
Here’s a question to add to your next OASIS-C training session: Does the patient need to have a pain assessment conducted to answer “yes” to M2250e (interventions to monitor and
05/10/2010

CMS will add 13 new OASIS-C process measures to its Home Health Compare website in October. That will be the first new data on the website after a six-month blackout

05/10/2010

Patients who attend adult day care centers that aren’t certified or licensed may be putting their homebound status in jeopardy.

05/10/2010

How much can hiring physicians’ spouses as marketers help agencies increase their physician referrals in Florida’s highly competitive home health market?

05/10/2010
CMS could publish long-awaited revisions to the home health conditions of participation in a proposed rule in September, according to HHS’s semi-annual regulatory agenda, released April 26.
05/10/2010
It takes a physician’s signature on a plan of care to bill Medicaid or Medicare for home health services. But it doesn’t always work that way in Miami-Dade County, according
05/10/2010
When CMS changes the PPS therapy thresholds that are worth more money, agencies are quick to follow, recent data show. And CMS is noticing.
05/03/2010

Home health agencies that don’t use telehealth to monitor patients have a new reason to rethink the issue.

05/03/2010

One multi-office Texas home health agency is experiencing the unwanted attention of the new Medicare contractors aimed at eliminating fraud and abuse.

05/03/2010

You may have heard about CMS’s new anti-fraud contractors called zone program integrity contractors (ZPICs). But do you know how they operate and when they might attack?

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