Home Health Line
12/21/2009
The government has laid out the most complete account so far of alleged Medicare outlier abuses with indictments of 15 Miami–Dade County residents accused of participating in a scheme that
12/21/2009
The tools you’re using to assess patients’ falls risk might not satisfy the criteria CMS recently clarified in its latest OASIS-C guidance.
12/21/2009
Using in-home electrical stimulation (e-stim) therapy equipment can improve your patients’ functional status and help drive up referrals by 10% or more, say agencies that are using it.
12/21/2009
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) seems likely to recommend a zero home health inflation update in 2011.
12/21/2009
National scores for two Home Health Compare measures improve in December update. National scores for improvement in ambulation and bathing increased 1 percentage point each – to 46% and 65%, respectively,
12/21/2009
New CMS data show an increase in hospice lengths of stay and provide further evidence that hospices are at greater risk for denials if they don’t document patient decline.
12/14/2009
Florida’s Miami-Dade County retains its reputation as ground zero for Medicare outlier fraud. But agencies in 23 additional counties also may be the target of future reviews, the HHS Office
12/14/2009
Agencies considering giving their referring physicians free access to a portal that tracks their care plan oversight (CPO) time better proceed with caution to avoid violating anti-kickback and Stark prohibitions,
12/14/2009
Consider this scenario: Your home health agency provides rehab therapy to a hospice patient with terminal cancer who recently experienced a fall unrelated to the cancer.
12/14/2009
Hospice clinicians who complete documentation during their visits may count that time toward the new visit-reporting requirements, effective Jan. 1.

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